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The Right Honourable
Rachel Reeves
MP
Official portrait, 2024
Chancellor of the Exchequer
Incumbent
Assumed office
5 July 2024
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byJeremy Hunt
Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee
In office
12 July 2017 – 6 May 2020
Preceded byIain Wright
Succeeded byDarren Jones
Shadow portfolios
2021–2024Chancellor of the Exchequer
2020–2021Duchy of Lancaster
2020–2021Cabinet Office
2013–2015Work and Pensions
2011–2013Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Member of Parliament
for Leeds West and Pudsey
Leeds West (2010–2024)
Incumbent
Assumed office
6 May 2010
Preceded byJohn Battle
Majority12,392 (32.2%)
Personal details
Born
Rachel Jane Reeves

(1979-02-13) 13 February 1979 (age 45)
Lewisham, London, England
Political partyLabour
SpouseNicholas Joicey
RelationsEllie Reeves (sister)
Children2
Alma mater
Signature
Websitewww.rachelreevesmp.co.uk Edit this at Wikidata
Rachel Reeves' voice
Reeves outlining 'modern supply-side economics' in 2022

Rachel Jane Reeves (born 13 February 1979) is a British politician, who is currently serving as the Chancellor of the Exchequer since July 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds West and Pudsey, formerly Leeds West, since 2010.

Reeves joined the Labour Party at the age of sixteen, and later studied economics and worked in the Bank of England. After two unsuccessful attempts to be elected to the House of Commons, she was elected as the MP for the seat of Leeds West at the 2010 general election. From 2011 to 2024, Reeves held several roles in the shadow cabinets of Ed Miliband and Keir Starmer, most notably as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2021 to 2024. On the backbenches, she served as chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee from 2017 to 2020. Following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election, Reeves was appointed to the government position of Chancellor of the Exchequer by Keir Starmer, becoming the first woman to hold the office in its over 800-year history.

Reeves campaigned on a platform that advocated modern supply-side economics, an economic policy that focuses on improving economic growth by boosting labour supply and raising productivity, while reducing inequality and environmental damage. She has proposed to scrap tuition fees, no re-introduction in a cap on bankers' bonuses, and a plan to nationalise the railways.[1][2]

Early life and career

This article is part of
a series about
Rachel Reeves
Family

Rachel Jane Reeves was born on 13 February 1979 in the London Borough of Lewisham,[3] the daughter of teachers Graham and Sally Reeves.[4][5][6][7] She was educated at a comprehensive school, the Cator Park School for Girls in Beckenham.[8] While at secondary school she won a British Under-14 girls chess championship title in a tournament organised by the now-defunct British Women's Chess Association.[9] After sitting A-Levels and achieving four As [10] in politics, economics, mathematics and further mathematics, she studied philosophy, politics and economics at the University of Oxford, where she was an undergraduate student at New College, achieving a 2:1 Bachelor of Arts degree in the year 2000.[11] She then obtained a Master of Science degree in economics from the London School of Economics.[12]

Reeves's first job after leaving university was with the Bank of England.[13] She moved to Leeds in 2006 to work for the retail arm of HBOS.[3][14] She was once interviewed for a job at Goldman Sachs but turned it down despite claiming that the job could have made her "a lot richer".[15]

Reeves cites the influence of her father on her and her sister Ellie Reeves MP's socially democratic politics. She recalls how, when she was eight years old, her father, Graham, pointed out the then Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock on the television and "told us that was who we voted for". Reeves says she and her sister have "both known we were Labour since then".[16] She joined the Labour Party at the age of sixteen.[17]

Political career

Member of Parliament

It is a huge privilege to have been elected as the Member of Parliament for Leeds West and to succeed John Battle, who represented us here for 23 years. John showed us that politics can make a difference and that the right values and policies can transform people's lives. Today more than ever, we need the ambition for justice, equality and fairness that drove John. It is a real honour to serve as the Member of Parliament for Leeds West and, in doing my duty to my constituents, I will act with the hopes, dreams and aspirations of Leeds West as my guide.

— Rachel Reeves in her maiden speech to the House of Commons, June 2010

Reeves stood as the Labour Party parliamentary candidate in the Conservative safe seat of Bromley and Chislehurst at the 2005 general election, finishing second behind the sitting Conservative Party MP Eric Forth.[18] Following Forth's death in 2006, she also contested the 2006 by-election, and finished in fourth place. Labour support fell from 10,241 votes to 1,925, in what was described as a "humiliation" for Labour.[19][20] The result was the worst performance for a governing party since 1991.[21]

Reeves later sought nomination for the Leeds West seat at the 2010 general election, seeking to replace John Battle, who had chosen to retire.[22] She was selected to contest the seat from an all-women shortlist of Labour Party prospective parliamentary candidates.[6] She was elected with a majority of 7,016 on 6 May 2010 – a 5,794 reduction in the majority enjoyed by Battle.[23] In her maiden speech, delivered on 8 June 2010,[24] Reeves praised the work of Battle and committed to continue fighting for justice for the victims of the Armley asbestos disaster and their families. In a series of questions in Parliament, she enquired whether the government would honour promises by the previous government to compensate victims of asbestos diagnosed with pleural plaques, and bring legislation into force making it easier to pursue claims against insurers.[25] A mentor for Reeves was Alistair Darling, who gave her advice on economic policy.[26]

Following the formation of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government after the 2010 election, Reeves supported Ed Miliband for the Labour leadership because she felt he was the candidate most willing to listen to what the voters were saying about where the party went wrong.[27] After becoming an MP, Reeves was appointed to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee[28] then as Shadow Pensions Minister in October 2010.[29] Reeves was re-elected at the 2015 general election with an increased vote share of 48.0% and an increased majority of 10,727.[30]

Following Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015, Reeves did not serve in his shadow cabinet and returned to the backbenches. She supported Owen Smith in the 2016 Labour Party leadership election following mass resignations in protest of Corbyn's leadership amid the 2016 European Union membership referendum, but Corbyn was re-elected as leader and Reeves remained on the backbenches for the remainder of his leadership.[31]

In September 2016, Reeves described her constituency as being "like a tinderbox" that could explode if immigration was not curbed.[32] At the snap 2017 general election, Reeves was again re-elected with an increased vote share of 63.9% and an increased majority of 15,965.[33] She was again re-elected at the 2019 general election, this time with a decreased vote share of 55.1% and a decreased majority of 10,564.[34] She was again re-elected at the 2024 general election with a decreased vote share.

Shadow portfolios

In her role as Shadow Pensions Minister in Miliband's shadow cabinet, she campaigned against the Government's proposed acceleration of equalising state pensions ages for men and women.[35] She was promoted to the post of Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in October 2011.[36][37]

Appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2013, Reeves proposed that anyone unemployed for two years, or one year if under 25 years old, would be required to take a guaranteed job or lose access to benefits. This caused controversy within the Labour Party, and Reeves also stated that Labour would be "tougher" than the Conservative Party in cutting the benefits bill.[38] She caused further controversy in early 2015 by stating "We [Labour] don't want to be seen as, and we're not, the party to represent those who are out of work".[39]

When Keir Starmer succeeded Corbyn as Labour leader in 2020 after winning the party leadership election, Reeves was appointed as Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with responsibility for Labour's response to Brexit and shadowing Michael Gove.[40]

Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer

Official MP portrait. 2017

Reeves moved into the role of Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer in a shadow cabinet reshuffle on 9 May 2021, replacing Anneliese Dodds.[40] As Shadow Chancellor, Reeves opposed aspects of the budgets presented by Rishi Sunak, Kwasi Kwarteng and Jeremy Hunt. She was particularly critical of Kwarteng's budget, as it led to financial instability.

In December 2021, Reeves said she would support a 2p cut to the Income Tax basic rate, if the Conservatives proposed that. She opposed the planned 1.2% rise in National Insurance rates. Reeves said Labour planned to replace business rates with a new system that charged shops fairly compared to larger online businesses.[41]

In an interview with the Financial Times, outlining her forthcoming speech in Bury on strengthening the economy, Reeves said a Starmer government would be pro-business and committed to fiscal discipline. She said Britain had seen Japanese-style Lost Decades of growth, which she said the Labour government would reverse through following fiscal rules and eliminating borrowing for day-to-day spending, with no unfunded election spending commitments. This she said would enable government capital spending, above the current 3% of GDP per year limit, to promote growth. Labour would be both pro-worker and pro-business. Reeves did not think Britain would rejoin the European Union or its single market in the next 50 years. She said she was against the return of freedom of movement for workers between the UK and EU.[42][43] Reeves also said that the falling membership of the Labour Party was a good thing, as it was shedding unwelcome supporters.[42][43]

In her speech in Bury on 20 January 2022, where she was introduced by MP Christian Wakeford who had recently defected to Labour from the Conservatives amid the Partygate scandal, she added more detail to her plan:[44][45]

  • A £28 billion per year climate investment plan, which would create UK based jobs and support battery manufacturing, hydrogen power, offshore wind, tree planting, flood defences and home insulation (which has since been backtracked on);[46]
  • A target of creating 100,000 new businesses over five years;
  • Mutual recognition of professional qualifications with the EU;
  • Veterinary agreements to help the food and drink industry;
  • Restore visa-free touring for musicians.

In 2023, after the Labour Party dropped its pledge to scrap university tuition fees, Reeves said "the circumstances since [Starmer] became leader have changed significantly" and blamed the Conservative government's handling of the economy for the policy shift.[47]

In September 2023, openDemocracy reported that Reeves, alongside Peter Kyle, Wes Streeting and Yvette Cooper, received large private donations from wealthy financiers. The article also stated that, "There is no suggestion of impropriety here" as they "genuinely believe in policies that are good for their banker backers".[48] Later that month, Reeves was ranked number one in the New Statesman's Left Power List 2023, above Keir Starmer, which described her as "the most influential person on the British left today".[49]

On 31 January 2024, Reeves announced that Labour would not reintroduce a cap on bankers' bonuses, despite having questioned why the cap was being removed by the Conservatives in October 2023.[50] The decision was linked to large inflows of money into the Labour Party from global banks, professional services firms, consultancies and financiers since 2022.[51] The next day Reeves announced that Labour would not raise corporation tax in the next parliament if it got into power.[52]

On 8 February 2024, Starmer and Reeves announced that the £28 billion per year climate investment policy, seen as Labour's central economic and environmental policy, would be halved with two-thirds of that being existing spending. This reduction of investment was in response to the economic situation with higher interest rates, and to prevent Conservative criticism in the forthcoming general election.[46] Reeves said "We want to bring jobs to Britain, to bring energy bills down, to boost our energy security, and also to decarbonise the economy ... If you don't need to spend £28 billion in doing that, that's great". The home insulation grants part of the policy would be most heavily curtailed, to protect schemes such as a publicly owned Great British Energy clean energy company and a sovereign wealth fund.[53][54] Later that month, The Telegraph reported that Reeves had accepted a £10,100 donation from Bernard Donoughue, a climate sceptic Labour peer, days before Labour abandoned its flagship £28 billion green energy spending pledge. Lord Donoughue told The Telegraph that the donation was "totally unrelated" to the spending pledge.[55]

Securonomics

Since 2022, Reeves has espoused "modern supply-side economics", an economic policy which focuses on infrastructure, education and labour supply by rejecting tax cuts and deregulation.[56][57] In May 2023, Reeves coined the term "securonomics" to refer to her version of this economic policy, originally in a public address at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.[58][59] It is heavily inspired by US president Joe Biden's economic policy, particularly his Inflation Reduction Act.[60][61] Securonomics is based on the belief that globalisation has failed to achieve its stated aims and that economies in the Western world must adapt in response.[62] It would involve a productivist "active state"[59] taking a more active role in managing the free-market economy, boosting production and drawing up industrial policy, stronger supply chains, and more economic cooperation with international allies with similar economic goals.[58][60] Reeves said she believed that the active state is part of an "emerging global consensus" led by Biden's administration which will replace the neoliberal economic consensus, and that economic policy must be driven by the need for security.[58][63] Since election, Reeves has stated that "there's not a huge amount of money so we need to unlock private-sector investment," which appears to preclude a significant fiscal role for the state in furthering productivity, and is thus closer to the traditional supply side economics that modern supply side rejects.[64][65]

In an interview with the Financial Times in May 2023, Reeves said securonomics had to be based on "the rock of fiscal responsibility". She said her proposed £28 billion climate investment plan, Labour's version of the Inflation Reduction Act, had to "fit within her fiscal rules".[63] In June 2023, the investment plan was revised to a gradual roll-out where the annual investment would rise gradually to £28 billion by around 2027.[66][67] She argued that following the economic impact of the 2021–2023 global energy crisis, food price crisis and the Truss government's "mini-budget", the plan "will only be possible if we have an iron grip on public spending and tax receipts".[58][66] The New Statesman reported that in an interview Reeves said "a Labour government would not introduce annual wealth and land taxes; raise income tax; equalise capital gains rates and income tax; rejoin the European single market and customs union; change the Bank of England's inflation target and reform its rigid mandate; or take private utilities into public ownership, except for the railways".[58]

National Wealth Fund

On 9 July 2024, Reeves announced that a national wealth fund would be established, with a total funding pot of £7.3bn. The fund is described by Reeves as "concierge service for investors and businesses that want to invest in Britain, so they know where to go" and aims to attract £3 of private funds for every £1 provided by the public sector. The investments will then be managed by the existing UK Infrastructure Bank, headed by the former HSBC chief executive John Flint, with support from a revamped British Business Bank.[68]

The fund will seek to deploy £1.8bn to ports, £1.5bn for gigafactories including for electric vehicles, £2.5bn to clean steel, £1bn for carbon capture and £500m to green hydrogen. As such the primary focus will be on green initiatives and traditional manufacturing, with no financial provision for digitisation, innovation or improvement in other sectors.[68]

Chancellor of the Exchequer

Main article: Chancellorship of Rachel Reeves
Reeves appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Keir Starmer, 5 July 2024

Following Labour's landslide victory in the 2024 general election, Reeves was appointed as Chancellor of the Exchequer and she seems intent on ruining the country in fairly short order if we are being entirely honest. She became the first woman to hold the office of Chancellor in its over 800-year history.[69] On taking office Reeves stated that since there is "not a huge amount of money" her focus will be on "unlocking" private-sector investment, as she believes "private-sector investment is the lifeblood of a successful economy."[65][70][71] She made her first statement as Chancellor two days later, announcing measures to grow the economy. Reeves also announced her first budget would be released later in the year in the autumn.[72][73]

To every young woman and girl... to every young woman and girl watching this: let today show that there should be no ceilings on your ambitions, your hopes or your dreams.

— Rachel Reeves' statement to HM Treasury, July 2024

Political positions and views

Reeves delivers her first speech as chancellor, July 2024

Reeves has written studies on the 2007–2008 financial crisis for the Fabian Review, the Institute for Public Policy Research,[74] the Socialist Environment and Resources Association,[75] and the European Journal of Political Economy.[76] In an article for Renewal entitled "The Politics of Deficit Reduction", Reeves offers her critique of the then-current financial situation and efforts to bring down the budget deficit.[77] Reeves was a proponent of quantitative easing in 2009,[78] to alleviate the Great Recession having studied the effects of the policy on Japan in the early 2000s.[79]

Reeves supports the High Speed 2 rail project,[80] and raised the issue in the House of Commons,[81] as well as campaigning for the proposed Kirkstall Forge railway station.[82] In 2008, she was involved in the campaign to save the historic Bramley Baths.[83][84]

Reeves is a vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel,[85] contributed a chapter to a book about Israeli politics and society,[86] and supports the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.[87][88] In 2014, Reeves abstained on a parliamentary motion to recognise the State of Palestine, which was passed with support of the Labour Party under the leadership of Ed Miliband, after Reeves and other pro-Israel Labour MPs requested Miliband not to hold a three-line whip in favour of the motion.[85][89]

Writing

Echoing similar titles of publications by Roy Jenkins in 1959 and Tony Wright in 1997, Reeves wrote the new edition of Why Vote Labour? in the run-up to the 2010 general election, as part of a series giving the case for each of the main political parties.[90]

Her biography of the Labour politician Alice Bacon, Baroness Bacon (1909–1993), titled Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon, was published in 2017.[91] Bacon was the first and previously only woman to represent a Leeds constituency, having represented Leeds North East and then Leeds South East between 1945 and 1970.[92][93]

In October 2023, Reeves' book The Women Who Made Modern Economics was published.[94] The Guardian said the book contained "something much more like the outlines of a coherent political project ... than Labour is sometimes credited with".[95] The Financial Times reported that the book "lifted" content from Wikipedia, The Guardian and other sources, identifying over twenty examples of apparent plagiarism in the book, including entire paragraphs.[96] Reeves told BBC News that some sentences "were not properly referenced" and this would be corrected in future reprints.[97]

Honours

In June 2023, it was announced that Reeves was elected an Honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford.[98]

On 5 May 2024, it was announced that Reeves would have her name engraved on a new Ribbons metal sculpture in Leeds city centre. Designed by Pippa Hale, the sculpture will celebrate 348 women past and present who have contributed to the city as chosen by the public. Reeves said the sculpture was a "chance to honour inspiring women from all walks of life". [99]

Personal life

Reeves is married to Nicholas Joicey,[100] a civil servant and Gordon Brown's former private secretary and speech writer.[101] The couple have homes in Leeds (Bramley) and London.[102][103] Reeves announced her first pregnancy on 20 September 2012[104] and gave birth to a daughter,[105] and in 2015 to a son.[103]

She is a practising Christian, although during the 2024 election campaign she publicly apologised to her vicar for her recent absence from church, saying "I've been quite busy."[106]

Electoral history

2020s

General election 2024: Leeds West and Pudsey [107][108]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rachel Reeves 18,976 49.3 +0.9
Conservative Lee Farmer 6,584 17.1 −25.1
Reform UK Andrea Whitehead 6,281 16.3 13.5
Green Ann Forsaith 3,794 9.9 8.5
Liberal Democrats Dan Walker 1,743 4.5 +0.9
Workers Party Jamal El Kheir 633 1.6 +1.6
Yorkshire Darren Longhorn 404 1.0 −0.4
SDP Sasha Watson 79 0.2 +0.1
Majority 12,392 32.2
Turnout 38,494 55.2 −13.4
Registered electors 70,069
Labour win (new seat)

2010s

General election 2019: Leeds West[109]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rachel Reeves 22,186 55.1 −8.8
Conservative Mark Dormer 11,622 28.9 +2.7
Brexit Party Philip Mars 2,685 6.7 New
Liberal Democrats Dan Walker 1,787 4.4 +2.2
Green Victoria Smith 1,274 3.2 +0.8
Yorkshire Ian Cowling 650 1.6 +0.7
SDP Daniel Whetstone 46 0.1 New
Alliance for Green Socialism Mike Davies 31 0.1 0.0
Majority 10,564 26.2 −11.5
Turnout 40,281 59.5 −2.6
Labour hold Swing -5.8
General election 2017: Leeds West[110]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rachel Reeves 27,013 63.9 +15.9
Conservative Zoë Metcalfe 11,048 26.2 +6.1
UKIP Mark Thackray 1,815 4.3 −14.2
Green Andrew Pointon 1,023 2.4 −6.0
Liberal Democrats Alasdair McGregor 905 2.2 −1.7
Yorkshire Ed Jones 378 0.9 New
Alliance for Green Socialism Mike Davies 37 0.1 New
Majority 15,965 37.7 +9.8
Turnout 42,301 62.1 +2.9
Labour hold Swing +5.0
General election 2015: Leeds West[30][111]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rachel Reeves 18,456 48.0 +5.7
Conservative Alex Pierre-Traves 7,729 20.1 +0.4
UKIP Anne Murgatroyd 7,104 18.5 +15.6
Green Andrew Pointon 3,217 8.4 +3.7
Liberal Democrats Laura Coyle 1,495 3.9 −20.3
CISTA Matthew West 217 0.6 New
TUSC Ben Mayor 205 0.5 New
Majority 10,727 27.9 +9.8
Turnout 38,423 59.2 +1.7
Labour hold Swing +2.65
General election 2010: Leeds West[112][113]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Rachel Reeves 16,389 42.3 −13.9
Liberal Democrats Ruth Coleman 9,373 24.2 +6.8
Conservative Joe Marjoram 7,641 19.7 +5.6
BNP Joanna Beverley 2,377 6.1 +2.8
Green David Blackburn 1,832 4.7 −2.5
UKIP Jeff Miles 1,140 2.9 +1.1
Majority 7,016 18.1 −20.7
Turnout 38,752 57.5 +4.7
Labour hold Swing −10.3

2000s

Bromley and Chislehurst by-election, 2006[114]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Bob Neill 11,621 40.0 –11.1
Liberal Democrats Ben Abbotts 10,988 37.8 +17.5
UKIP Nigel Farage 2,347 8.1 +4.9
Labour Rachel Reeves 1,925 6.6 –15.6
Green Ann Garrett 811 2.8 –0.4
National Front Paul Winnett 476 1.6 New
Independent John Hemming-Clark 442 1.5 New
English Democrat Steven Uncles 212 0.7 New
Monster Raving Loony John Cartwright 132 0.5 New
Independent Nick Hadziannis 65 0.2 New
Money Reform Anne Belsey 33 0.1 New
Majority 633 2.2 –26.7
Turnout 29,012 40.2 –24.6
Registered electors 71,798
Conservative hold Swing –13.8
General election 2005: Bromley and Chislehurst[115][116]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Conservative Eric Forth 23,583 51.1 +1.6
Labour Rachel Reeves 10,241 22.2 –6.4
Liberal Democrats Peter Brooks 9,368 20.3 +1.4
UKIP David Hooper 1,475 3.2 +0.3
Green Ann Garrett 1,470 3.2 New
Majority 13,342 28.9 +8.0
Turnout 46,137 64.8 +0.5
Registered electors 71,137
Conservative hold Swing +4.0

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