Peter Rhodes on a dodgy CV, high-speed sex and the shame of our prisons
Rachel Reeves is not the first MP to have gilded her CV. She famously claimed to have been an economist at the Bank of England when she was actually in retail banking.
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The mystery is why, two months after Reeves was first rumbled, the ribbing goes on. The answer lies on the other side of the world with Colin from Accounts, a dog-centred Australian TV comedy that became popular in Britain at about the same time as Reeves became one of Labour's rising stars. In the series we never meet Colin, after who the dog is named, but he sounds like an uninspired workplace drone who talks big but achieves little. Thus, unkindly, Ms Reeves has become “Rachel from Accounts,” a put-down used openly by journalists, bloggers and even in Parliament.
But it can't last forever. As a columnist in The Spectator pointed out recently, plenty of people in Westminster “haven’t been 100 per cent transparent about their professional history.” Stones, glasshouses and all that stuff.
