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Reeves says she was ‘never questioned’ over HBOS expenses

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Rachel Reeves was visiting a building site in Nottingham when confronted about the row (Image: Getty)

In a stuttering performance, the Chancellor insisted she was “never questioned” over her expenses while working at HBOS.

In her first comments the under-fire minister insisted: “No-one ever raised any concerns about my expenses when I worked for Halifax Bank of Scotland.

“I submitted, had processed and had my expenses signed off in the proper way as you would expect and no issues were ever raised during my time at HBOS.”

She stumbled when asked how she wasn’t aware of an investigation going on into her while many of her colleagues did.

The BBC discovered comments in a Facebook group for former employees of Halifax, which alluded to an issue about her expenses.

Ms Reeves insisted: “I don’t know what they are saying, and of course none of them have gone on the record.

“These concerns were never raised with me during the time I worked at HBOS, and I’m really proud of the work I did both as an economist at the Bank of England and later for Halifax Bank of Scotland.”

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The questions surround her time working for Halifax from 2006 to 2009 (Image: Getty)

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The Chancellor also dodged questions about why she had been forced to make yet another change to her CV, after she admitted to exaggerating the time spent working for the Bank of England.

Despite repeatedly claiming to have spent nearly 10 years working at Threadneedle Street, she now admits to spending less than six years there working as an analyst.

Treasury sources insisted the latest error was an administrative mistake by a member of her team.

It’s the second major amendment to her LinkedIn profile since becoming Chancellor, after she was caught exaggerating her role at HBOS.

Questioned about the latest inaccuracy, Ms Reeves argued voters will “judge me on the job I’m doing now as Chancellor of the Exchequer, to grow the economy and put more money in the pockets of working people”.

Labour also launched a bitter feud with the BBC this morning, who published the claims earlier this week, accusing the public broadcaster of publishing “totally inaccurate” allegations.

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Science and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle blasted the BBC, telling Radio 4: “Unfortunately, the reporting has been totally inaccurate, and we heard yesterday that the person who was actually head of HR at that bank at that time says it’s untrue, said that she never, ever receive a file on Rachel Reeves.

“And she says that before she left the bank, there was no investigation that passed her desk. And she’s also said if there was one, it would have passed her desk.

“I didn’t see any of that reporting included in the story I read yesterday evening on the BBC website.”

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Ironically the senior minister was wrong to claim there had been “no investigation”, as the HBOS Internal Audit team did conduct a probe following the original whistleblowing complaint in 2009.

However the subsequent interview stages of the investigation process did not progress, and no conclusion was reached before Ms Reeves left the company in May that year.

On Thursday her team insisted she left on “good terms”, with a “severance payment, including full notice pay and a bonus.”

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