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Rachel Reeves | |||||||||||||||||||
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Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer | |||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 9 May 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||
Leader | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Anneliese Dodds | ||||||||||||||||||
Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee | |||||||||||||||||||
In office 12 July 2017 – 6 May 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Iain Wright | ||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Darren Jones | ||||||||||||||||||
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Member of Parliament for Leeds West | |||||||||||||||||||
In office 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | John Battle | ||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Constituency abolished | ||||||||||||||||||
Majority | 10,564 (26.2%) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Rachel Jane Reeves 13 February 1979 Lewisham, London, England | ||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Nicholas Joicey | ||||||||||||||||||
Children | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
Relatives | Ellie Reeves (sister) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Website | Official website | ||||||||||||||||||
Rachel Jane Reeves (born 13 February 1979) is a British politician who has been Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2021, and was Member of Parliament (MP) for Leeds West from 2010 to 2024.
Reeves studied at New College, Oxford and the London School of Economics before working at the Bank of England and then HBOS. Elected at the 2010 general election, she served in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2011 to 2013 and Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2013 to 2015. Reeves became a backbencher following Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader in 2015, and served as chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee from 2017 to 2020.
After Keir Starmer was elected as leader in 2020 he appointed her Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, shadowing Michael Gove. In May 2021 Reeves replaced Anneliese Dodds as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. In this role she has adhered to "modern supply-side economics", an economic policy which focuses on infrastructure, education and labour supply by rejecting tax cuts and deregulation. It is heavily inspired by Joe Biden's economic policy, particularly his Inflation Reduction Act. She coined the term "securonomics" in 2023 to refer to her version of this economic policy.