Rachel Reeves

British politician (born 1979)

Rachel Jane Reeves (born 13 February 1979) is a British politician serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer since July 2024, and the first woman to be appointed to the post. Previously, she was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2021. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament for Leeds West since the 2010 general election.

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  • Until this government's formation just over a year ago, every generation of women has enjoyed greater opportunity. My great-grandmother was a cockle picker on the south coast of Wales, my grandmother worked in shoe factories, and my mother is a primary school teacher. But this expectation that women of the next generation will do better than the one before is now fundamentally threatened.
  • The real cause of what is happening now is a terrorist attack. If Britain or any other country was attacked by terrorists, we would believe, and rightly so, that we have every right to defend ourselves, to get back hostages and to protect our citizens.
    Israel is no different. It has every right to defend itself. [...]
    Of course, it has to abide by international rules of engagement.
  • I want to see a Palestinian state existing alongside a safe and secure Israel and what frustrates me so much is that what Hamas has done over the last few days has set back the cause of peace that I am so desperate to see in the Middle East and that people across Labour are desperate to see in the Middle East.
    But terrorism is not the way to get there and I am appalled by what we have seen.
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