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It’s not just a rise in inflation that has the UK’s Labour government on the back foot. A second cabinet minister, Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, has been accused of inflating his CV following similar suggestions about the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves.
Reynolds claimed in the House of Commons and on a website that he had worked as a solicitor, but it has emerged that he hadn’t qualified by the time he quit the training course to enter parliament in 2010.
Home Office minister Diana Johnson told Times Radio there had been “administrative mistakes”, but didn’t respond when asked if Reynolds’ job was at risk.
This follows weeks of questions about the extent to which Reeves may have embellished her CV, after it emerged she had edited her LinkedIn profile to remove a claim she worked as an economist at the Bank of Scotland between 2006 and 2009.
The real pressure on both ministers is to drive economic growth, but the CV questions still fuel reshuffle rumours.
