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What does Rachel Reeves stand for?

23 March 2024

9:00 AM

23 March 2024

9:00 AM

As the world discovered when she was caught lifting other people’s work for her book on women in economics, Rachel Reeves is not the most original of thinkers. But she has political talents. She has cultivated her image as an uninspiring technocrat in order to present herself as someone who will not spring surprises or take risks as chancellor.

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