Rachel Jane Reeves (born 13 February 1979) is a British politician who has served as 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. She previously held various shadow ministerial and shadow cabinet portfolios between 2010 and 2015 and from 2020 to 2024.
Born in Lewisham, Reeves attended Cator Park School for Girls. She studied PPE at the University of Oxford before obtaining a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics. She joined the Labour Party at the age of sixteen, and later 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. She endorsed Ed Miliband in the 2010 Labour leadership election and joined his frontbench in October 2010 as Shadow Pensions Minister. She was promoted to the shadow cabinet as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2011, and later became Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2013. She was reelected to Parliament at the 2015 general election, and following Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader the same year, she left the shadow cabinet and returned to the backbenches.
On the backbenches, she served as chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee from 2017 to 2020. She was reelected in both the 2017 and 2019 general elections. In 2020 she returned to the shadow cabinet as Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster under new leader Keir Starmer. In the May 2021 British shadow cabinet reshuffle, she was promoted to Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. As Shadow Chancellor, 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 proposed a plan to nationalise the railways.
Following Labour's victory in the 2024 general election and the subsequent formation of the Starmer ministry, Reeves was appointed to the government as Chancellor of the Exchequer, becoming the first woman to hold the office in its over 800-year history. Early into her tenure, she established the National Wealth Fund, scrapped certain winter fuel payments, cancelled several infrastructure projects, and announced numerous public sector pay rises. She presented her first budget in October 2024, where she introduced the largest tax rises at a budget since March 1993.
Bővebben...A 1979. február 13. egy kedd volt a ♒ csillagjegy alatt. Ez volt az év 43 napja. Az Egyesült Államok elnöke Jimmy Carter volt.
Ha ezen a napon születtél, akkor 46 éves vagy. Az utolsó születésnapod 2025. február 13., csütörtök, 240 napja volt. A következő születésnapod 2026. február 13., péntek napon lesz, 124 nap múlva. 17 042 napot élt, vagy körülbelül 409 014 órát, vagy körülbelül 24 540 868 percet vagy körülbelül 1 472 452 080 másodpercet.
Date: 13 February 1979
Special to The New York Times
Inter-Continental Hotel in Teheran, which is housing several hundred reporters, is attacked; bullet enters room of Los Angeles Times correspondent Kenneth Freed; no one is killed (S)
Date: 13 February 1979
By MARTIN TOLCHIN Special to The New York Times
Martin Special
Pres Carter says he warned his staff to be discreet in dealings with newsmen, but did not forbid them to discuss disagreements within Adm, news conf; claims all he wants is 'a degree of teamwork' once decisions are reached and discretion during period when they are being evolved; his Pres campaign pledge to have 'open Govt' recalled (M)
Date: 13 February 1979
Gov Carey says he will back Con Ed's request (S)
Date: 13 February 1979
By TERENCE SMITH Special to The New York Times
Terence Special
Pres Carter asserts that dissent is welcome within Adm while policy is being formulated, but once it is made, he expects aides to carry it out with loyalty and enthusiasm or resign (S)
Date: 13 February 1979
By LINDA GREENHOUSE Special to The New York Times
Linda Special
Assn's House of Delegates vote against relaxing assn's opposition to TV and radio coverage of trial and other judicial proceedings (M)
Date: 13 February 1979
transcript of Carter news conf
Date: 13 February 1979
killing of Danielak is 1 of at least 8 instances of roadway gunfire reptd since Jan 31 in central Ark (S)
Date: 13 February 1979
Fluor Corp repts that Daniel Construction Co has been selected as primary contractor for $254 million expansion project at Boise Cascade Corp pulp and paper mill in Rumford, Me (S)