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Rachel Reeves MP | |
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| Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 12 July 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Iain Wright |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions | |
In office 7 October 2013 – 8 June 2015 | |
| Leader | Ed Miliband Harriet Harman (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Liam Byrne |
| Succeeded by | Stephen Timms (Acting) |
| Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury | |
In office 7 October 2011 – 7 October 2013 | |
| Leader | Ed Miliband |
| Preceded by | Angela Eagle |
| Succeeded by | Chris Leslie |
Member of Parliament for Leeds West | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 6 May 2010 | |
| Preceded by | John Battle |
| Majority | 15,965 (37.8%) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1979-02-13) 13 February 1979 Lewisham, London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Nicholas Joicey |
| Relations | Ellie Reeves (sister) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | New College, Oxford London School of Economics |
| Website | Official website |
Rachel Jane Reeves (born 13 February 1979) is a British economist and Labour Party politician. She has served as the Member of Parliament for Leeds West since 2010.
Reeves was Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2013, but following Jeremy Corbyn's election as leader in 2015, she did not return to the Shadow Cabinet after her maternity leave.
On 12 July 2017, Reeves was elected chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee.[1]
Contents
1 Early life and career
2 Parliamentary career
2.1 Policy stances
2.2 Parliamentary credit card
3 Personal life
4 References
5 External links
Early life and career[edit]
The daughter of Graham and Sally Reeves of Lewisham, South East London,[2][3] Reeves was educated at Cator Park School for Girls in Bromley.[4] At school, she won a British Under-14 girls chess championship title in a tournament organised by the now-defunct British Women's Chess Association.[5][6][7]
After sitting A-Levels in Politics, Economics, Mathematics and Further Mathematics, she read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at New College, Oxford (MA), followed by graduating as MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.[8]
Reeves cites the influence of her father on her and her sister Ellie, in leaning towards socially democratic policies. She recalls how when she was eight years old, her father, Graham, pointed out the then-Labour 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".[9] She joined the Labour Party at the age of sixteen.[10]
She worked as an economist at the Bank of England and British Embassy in Washington, D.C. between 2000 and 2006.[11]
Reeves stood as the Labour Party parliamentary candidate in the Conservative safe seat of Bromley and Chislehurst at the 2005 general election, finishing second.[12] She also contested the 2006 by-election in the same constituency, following the death of sitting Conservative MP Eric Forth, and finished in fourth place. Labour support fell from 10,241 votes to 1,925, in what was described as a "humiliation" for Labour.[13][14] The result was the worst performance for a governing party since 1991.[15][16]
Reeves moved to Leeds in 2006 to work for HBOS.[17] She was once interviewed for a job at Goldman Sachs, but turned it down although the job could have made her "a lot richer".[7] She later sought nomination for the Leeds West seat at the 2010 general election,[18] seeking to replace John Battle, who had chosen to retire.[19] She was selected to contest the seat from an all-women shortlist of Labour Party prospective parliamentary candidates.[2]
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.[20]
Parliamentary career[edit]
Reeves speaking in 2012
Reeves was elected with a majority of 7,016 on 6 May 2010 – a 5,794 reduction in the majority enjoyed by Battle – [21] and became only the second woman to represent a Leeds constituency. In early 2017, she completed and published a biography of Alice Bacon,[8][22] who was the first such woman (having represented Leeds North East and then Leeds South East between 1945 and 1970).[23]
In her maiden speech, delivered on 8 June 2010,[24] Reeves praised the work of her predecessor John Battle, and pledged to fight for jobs, growth and prosperity for Leeds West.[24] She also pledged to follow in Battle's footsteps and fight 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]
Following the 2010 election, she 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.[26] After becoming an MP, Reeves was appointed to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee[27] then as Shadow Pensions Minister in October 2010.[28] In her role as Shadow Pensions Minister, she campaigned against the Government's proposed acceleration of equalising state pensions ages for men and women.[29] She was promoted to the post of Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in October 2011.[30][31] She caused controversy in early 2015 by stating "We [Labour] don’t want to be seen, and we're not, the party to represent those who are out of work".[32]
Reeves has been named by The Guardian newspaper as being one of several MPs who employ unpaid interns, a practice that some maintain may breach the National Minimum Wage Act 1998.[33]The Independent has named Reeves as a member of a group of new Labour MPs known as the "Nando's Five":[34] the others being Luciana Berger, Jonathan Reynolds, Emma Reynolds and Chuka Umunna.
In September 2016, she described her constituency as being "like a tinderbox" that could explode if immigration was not curbed.[35]
In September 2017, the conservative commentator Iain Dale placed Reeves at Number 94 on his list of the '100 most influential people on the Left', down ten places on the previous year.[36]
Policy stances[edit]
Reeves has written a study about the financial crisis of 2007–2010 for the Fabian Review, Institute of Public Policy Research,[37]Socialist Environment and Resources Association,[38] and the European Journal of Political Economy.[39] Following her election as MP, Reeves wrote about the direction of UK government fiscal policy in Renewal. In an article entitled "The Politics of Deficit Reduction",[40] Reeves offers her critique of the current financial situation and efforts to bring down the budget deficit.
She is a proponent of quantitative easing[41] to alleviate the late-2000s recession, having studied the effects of the policy on Japan in the early 2000s.[42]
Reeves supports the High Speed 2 rail project,[43] and raised the issue in the House of Commons,[44] as well as campaigning for the proposed Kirkstall Forge railway station.[45] She is also involved in the campaign to save the historic Bramley Baths[46][47] and the campaign to save the children's heart unit at Leeds General Infirmary.[48]
Reeves has held office in the Labour Friends of Israel and remains a member.[49] She contributed a chapter to a book about Israeli politics and society,[50] and she supports the Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation.[51]
Reeves regularly contributes articles to publications such as the website LabourList,[52]Progress[53] and The Guardian's Comment is Free.[54]
Parliamentary credit card[edit]
Reeves' Parliamentary credit card was stopped at the start of 2015, owing to a debt of £4,033.63 which she subsequently repaid.[55]
Personal life[edit]
Reeves is married to Nicholas Joicey,[56] a civil servant and Gordon Brown's former private secretary and speech writer.[57] The couple have homes in Bramley and London.[58][59]
Reeves' younger sister, Ellie, is the Labour MP for Lewisham West and Penge and is married to John Cryer, Labour MP for Leyton and Wanstead.[60][61] Reeves announced her first pregnancy on 20 September 2012, giving birth to a daughter.[62][63] She subsequently gave birth to a son in 2015.[59]
Reeves says she spends her spare time swimming, reading and walking.[8][18] Reeves is a Patron of Bramley Elderly Action and a Trustee of Leeds Healthy Living Network.[8] She was previously on the board of BARCA – Leeds and a governor of Swallow Hill Community College, and Kirkstall Valley Primary School.[8]
References[edit]
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^ Peterson, Macauley. "Nine-year-old talent gets to stay in the UK". ChessBase. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
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Moss, Stephen (18 October 2011). "My big match with the chess-champion MP". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 October 2013. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
Kidd, Patrick (21 August 2013). "Stuart Wheeler chickens out of chess challenge and the Duchess of Northumberland's Poison Garden". The Times. London. Retrieved 2 January 2013. (subscription required)
Friedel, Frederic (28 February 2012). "A history of cheating in chess (4)". ChessBase News. Archived from the original on 9 January 2013. Retrieved 19 January 2013.
^ ab Admin (24 November 2011). "Interview with Rachel Reeves". Investors Fresh News. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
^ abcde Reeves, Rachel. "About Rachel". rachelreeves.net. Rachel Reeves. Archived from the original on 23 April 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
^ "PPC Profile: Rachel Reeves". labourlist.org. LabourList. Archived from the original on 7 February 2011. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
^ Staff writer (2 June 2010). "Leeds West MP: Rachel Reeves interview". Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
^ Stratton, Allegra (19 March 2009). "Waiting in the Wings". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 3 January 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
^ "Voting begins in Bromley and Chislehurst by-election". This is Local London. 29 June 2006. Archived from the original on 3 October 2012. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
^ Staff writer (30 June 2006). "Labour and Tories suffer at polls". BBC News. Archived from the original on 22 February 2007. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
^ Assinder, Nick (30 June 2006). "Blair to count cost of poor night". BBC News. Archived from the original on 5 July 2006. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
^ Chapman, James (30 June 2006). "'Out of steam' Blair refuses to name departure date". Daily Mail. London. Archived from the original on 1 August 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
^ Freedland, Jonathan (30 June 2006). "Way off base". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 13 February 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2011.
^ Staff writer (15 September 2007). "Battle lines drawn in Leeds West". Yorkshire Evening Post. p. 7. Archived from the original on 15 August 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
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^ Stoddard, Katy (7 April 2010). "General Election 2010: Safe and marginal seats". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
^ Reeves, Rachel (2010). Why Vote Labour?. London: Biteback Publishing. ISBN 9781849540193. [permanent dead link]
^ Staff writer (7 May 2010). "Election 2010". BBC News. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
^ Hookham, Mark (2 June 2010). "Leeds West MP: Rachel Reeves interview". Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
^ Staff writer (6 May 2010). "Election reaction: Rachel is Leeds West's first lady". Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ ab "Economic Affairs and Work and Pensions". TheyWorkForYou. 8 June 2010. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ Jackson, Leigh (8 June 2010). "MP takes up asbestos battle". Insurance Post. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ Sparrow, Andrew (February 2012). "Rachel Reeves, rising star". Ethos. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
^ Staff writer (24 June 2010). "New MPs elected to select committees". PoliticsHome. Archived from the original on 28 June 2010. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
^ Selby, Thomas (14 October 2010). "Rachel Reeves takes Shadow pensions role". Money Marketing. Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
^ Reeves, Rachel (8 June 2011). "Don't turn back the clock for women". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 30 September 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ Selby, Thomas (7 October 2011). "Miliband promotes Rachel Reeves to Shadow cabinet". Money Marketing. Archived from the original on 14 October 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
^ Staff writer (7 October 2011). "Ed Miliband promotes fresh faces to Labour top team". Archived from the original on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
^ O'Connor, Roisin (17 March 2015). "Rachel Reeves says Labour does not want to represent people out of work". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 17 August 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
^ Malik, Shiv (27 November 2011). "MPs may be breaking law in offering work to unpaid interns". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 13 February 2014. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
^ Walker, Tim (12 November 2011). "'Don't compare me to Obama': Is Chuka Umunna Britain's first black PM?". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 17 December 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
^ "Jeremy Corbyn rules out pledge to cut immigration". The Guardian. 28 September 2016. Archived from the original on 27 September 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2016.
^ Dale, Iain (25 September 2017). "The 100 Most Influential People On The Left: Iain Dale's 2017 List". LBC. Archived from the original on 25 September 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
^ Reeves, Rachel; Dolphin, Tony; Clifton, Jonathan (15 July 2009). Building a Better Balanced UK Economy. Institute for Public Policy Research. Archived from the original on 15 August 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2009.
^ Reeves, Rachel; Pakes, Andrew. The Road to Copenhagen (PDF). Socialist Environment and Resources Association (SERA). Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 August 2017. Retrieved 30 December 2009.
^ Reeves, Rachel; Sawicki, Michael (March 2007). "Do financial markets react to Bank of England communication?". European Journal of Political Economy, special issue: Central bank transparency and central bank communication. Elsevier. 23 (1): 207–227. doi:10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2006.09.018. Pdf. Archived 15 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Reeves, Rachel (2010). "The politics of deficit reduction". Renewal. Lawrence and Wishart. 18 (3–4). Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
^ Reeves, Rachel (5 March 2009). "Labour must challenge the Tories on quantitative easing". LabourList. Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
^ Staff writer (9 October 2011). "Rachel Reeves: can she save the Labour Party?". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 12 December 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
^ Reed, Jonathan (30 March 2011). "Transport Minister reacts to today's demand from 90 regional leaders for high-speed rail link". Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ Staff writer (29 October 2010). "Minister 'shrugs off' Leeds MP's transport questions". Yorkshire Evening Post. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ Staff writer (30 June 2011). "Leeds: MP calls for end to railway station 'limbo'". Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ Staff writer (25 July 2008). "Bramley baths, Leeds". victoriansociety.org.uk. Victorian Society. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
^ Staff writer (21 July 2011). "Leeds West MP makes a splash for Bramley Baths". Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 25 April 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ "Oral Answers to Questions — Health". theyworkforyou.com. TheyWorkForYou. 12 July 2011. Archived from the original on 25 October 2012. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ Wright, Oliver (10 October 2010). "Anger grows within Labour over forced Palestinian vote". The Independent. Retrieved 11 October 2014.
^ Richards, Paul (18 November 2011). "Like Ed, we should all be friends of Israel". Progress. Archived from the original on 20 November 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
^ Reeves, Rachel (6 August 2011). "Preserving Auschwitz-Birkenau". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 10 June 2011. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
^ "Rachel Reeves". LabourList. Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ "Articles by Rachel Reeves". Progress. Archived from the original on 24 June 2017.
^ Reeves, Rachel (26 October 2009). "Contributor: Rachel Reeves". The Guardian. London: Guardian Media Group. Archived from the original on 11 June 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
^ Staff writer (1 July 2015). "Watchdog admits Duncan Smith's credit card blocked in error". BBC News. Archived from the original on 4 July 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
^ See the following:
Isaaman, Gerald (2 November 2011). "The Euro is going to continue to struggle for a long time, warns Claire Perry". Marlborough News Online. Archived from the original on 25 April 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2011.- Staff writer (2016), "JOICEY, Nicholas Beverley", Who's Who 2017. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription may be required or content may be available in libraries that are in the U.K.)
"The UK's role in the World Bank and IMF | Department for International Development and HM Treasury | Briefing | Bretton Woods Project". brettonwoodsproject.org. Bretton Woods Project. 18 July 2011. Archived from the original on 24 November 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
^ "Who's new in the new Who's Who?". Grimsby Telegraph. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 21 November 2011.
^ Staff writer. "Rachel Reeves". Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2011.
^ ab Mikhailova, Anna (29 May 2016). "Fame & Fortune: I said no to a Goldman Sachs job". The Times. Retrieved 15 September 2016. (Subscription required (help)).
^ Staff writer (9 August 2016). "Clean sweep for Corbyn supporters in Labour NEC election". BBC News. Archived from the original on 28 May 2017. Retrieved 26 April 2017.
^ Greatex, Jonny (26 August 2012). "MP Tom Watson finds new love after break up of marriage". Birmingham Mail. Archived from the original on 14 October 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2014.
^ Bowyer, Laura (20 September 2012). "Baby joy for Leeds West Labour MP Rachel Reeves". Yorkshire Evening Post. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2012.
^ Riddell, Mary (21 February 2015). "I'll end the bedroom tax then have a new baby, says Rachel Reeves". Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 11 September 2015. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
External links[edit]
- Official website
Profile at Parliament of the United Kingdom
Contributions in Parliament at Hansard 2010–present
Voting record at Public Whip
Record in Parliament at TheyWorkForYou- Fabian Society
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by John Battle | Member of Parliament for Leeds West 2010–present | Incumbent |
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| Preceded by Angela Eagle | Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury 2011–2013 | Succeeded by Chris Leslie |
| Preceded by Liam Byrne | Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 2013–2015 | Succeeded by Stephen Timms Acting |
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