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So she's better than the last two years of the Tories and she's only been there for 6 months.......

Where's the scoop?

She has full on lied on her CV. In any other walk of life that would be gross misconduct that would lead to dismissal.

Johnson was quite correctly ousted for lying. Reeves should resign, and if the liar does not, she should be sacked or Starmer is no better than Johnson.

First, has she lied or did she merely stretch the actualité?

Second, what has her CV to do with her election to parliament or appointment as Chancellor?

It is not as if anyone called for Tony Blair to resign over his claimed favourite meal changing with latitude, or David Cameron over his support for West Villa United (although there was a bit of a fuss over Blair and Jackie Milburn).

The two latter examples are absurd comparisons that are not relevant.

She lied on her CV and her LinkedIn profile, both in the duration of her role and the job title and type of organisation, with a clear intent to deceive . It was not a mistake, an exaggeration, or stretching of the truth, it was a full on lie that would be enough, as I say, to cause someone to be fired in any other walk of life.

Perhaps to some Labour supporters lying is only a bad thing when it is done by Tories?

Aside from a few light-hearted PB posts whenever West Ham and Aston Villa meet, no-one remarks on Cameron's fibs.

Even if you are right that Reeves lied on LinkedIn, there is no obvious link between that and her election to parliament or appointment as Chancellor. It is like pointing to her recently-dyed hair and complaining she is lying about its true colour: she might be but there is no link to any material benefit.

It really is quite simple. If someone lies on their CV it matters not whether it was material to them getting appointed, though without a parallel universe that is unknown. The point is that the individual is fundamentally and demonstrably dishonest. I might be old fashioned but I prefer the leaders of my country not to be proven liars, hence why I was always opposed to Johnson.

Without any material benefit, it is not even clear Reeves lied or merely applied a little gloss. In my own career there has often been little discernible relationship between job title and function. She was an economist and she was employed.

Total nonsense and you know it. Your "my party right or wrong" is rather disappointing as I thought you were smarter than that. As TSE just mentioned with respect to Johnson, it is about integrity. Reeves has proven she has none.

So she's better than the last two years of the Tories and she's only been there for 6 months.......

Where's the scoop?

She has full on lied on her CV. In any other walk of life that would be gross misconduct that would lead to dismissal.

Johnson was quite correctly ousted for lying. Reeves should resign, and if the liar does not, she should be sacked or Starmer is no better than Johnson.

First, has she lied or did she merely stretch the actualité?

Second, what has her CV to do with her election to parliament or appointment as Chancellor?

It is not as if anyone called for Tony Blair to resign over his claimed favourite meal changing with latitude, or David Cameron over his support for West Villa United (although there was a bit of a fuss over Blair and Jackie Milburn).

The two latter examples are absurd comparisons that are not relevant.

She lied on her CV and her LinkedIn profile, both in the duration of her role and the job title and type of organisation, with a clear intent to deceive . It was not a mistake, an exaggeration, or stretching of the truth, it was a full on lie that would be enough, as I say, to cause someone to be fired in any other walk of life.

Perhaps to some Labour supporters lying is only a bad thing when it is done by Tories?

Aside from a few light-hearted PB posts whenever West Ham and Aston Villa meet, no-one remarks on Cameron's fibs.

Even if you are right that Reeves lied on LinkedIn, there is no obvious link between that and her election to parliament or appointment as Chancellor. It is like pointing to her recently-dyed hair and complaining she is lying about its true colour: she might be but there is no link to any material benefit.

That's not quite true. She touted her experience in financial services as evidence that she knew how to run an economy.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/KJQctpxAqEg

Lying to your own party is par for the course; Boris wasn't sacked for that. Indeed they seemed quite happy with it.

Ah, so the position of Labour supporters is now "well they had Boris Johnson, so our leaders can lie as much as they want." Marvellous. I thought Starmer claimed he was going to clean up politics. That didn't last long did it?

So she's better than the last two years of the Tories and she's only been there for 6 months.......

Where's the scoop?

She has full on lied on her CV. In any other walk of life that would be gross misconduct that would lead to dismissal.

Johnson was quite correctly ousted for lying. Reeves should resign, and if the liar does not, she should be sacked or Starmer is no better than Johnson.

First, has she lied or did she merely stretch the actualité?

Second, what has her CV to do with her election to parliament or appointment as Chancellor?

It is not as if anyone called for Tony Blair to resign over his claimed favourite meal changing with latitude, or David Cameron over his support for West Villa United (although there was a bit of a fuss over Blair and Jackie Milburn).

The two latter examples are absurd comparisons that are not relevant.

She lied on her CV and her LinkedIn profile, both in the duration of her role and the job title and type of organisation, with a clear intent to deceive . It was not a mistake, an exaggeration, or stretching of the truth, it was a full on lie that would be enough, as I say, to cause someone to be fired in any other walk of life.

Perhaps to some Labour supporters lying is only a bad thing when it is done by Tories?

Poor figures for Labour and it's only going to get worse. The Tories will be in the lead on the economy by the middle of next year and it's because the outgoing government handed over 1.2% growth in H1 and Labour has trashed it in record time while putting up taxes by an unnecessary amount.

Everyone is going to feel worse off and Labour will take the blame for it as desperate as they are to try and push it on the previous government, businesses or anyone except themselves.

These next few years are going to be painful for everyone and I think the Tories need policies that will cut spending and cut public sector employment by a substantial number. We will continue down the road to Argentina if the Tories do nothing, a tax and spend death spiral.

Healthcare and welfare is the ballgame. It’s easier for a Labour government to reform then so I was rather hoping they would. They won’t, will they?

My instinct is that we need to radically rethink primary care, and obviously we need a proper answer on social care.

Social care needs a mandatory insurance provision that averages around £300 per person per year over 50. Not anything that will break the bank and subsidies available for people on low or fixed incomes. That would generate around £6bn per year which would fully fund social care at a stroke for everyone and it gets older people paying for their own care for just £10-12k lifetime insurance costs. Sure not everyone is going to need to use it but once people have it they'll wonder how we ever lived without the concept because the insurance will just handle all costs from day one without the hassle of having so sell property and with the risk so widely distributed over ~20m people there's no need for huge risk premiums as there would be now for the few people who would voluntarily purchase insurance of this kind.

As for healthcare shoveling money at the problem isn't the answer. It's all going to get pissed up the wall and the NHS management will be back asking for another £20bn in two years. It is a money pit and junking the whole system seems like the only way out right now.

I agree with 90% of this. There will be many people idealogically opposed to insurance, but the alternative is taxing working age people for the universal provision of care of (often rich) older people, which is a step this country cannot sustain. Even mandatory flat insurance will be regressive because it will serve to protect large inheritances, but that's a different issue imo.

Where I disagree is the shovelling of money. I think 11% of GDP on healthcare is fine (17% in the US); I'd boost it to 13% as long as all of the extra money goes on Public Health (perhaps a bit on primary). We have to freeze secondary care in real terms before it's eats all of our tax revenue.

I think the NHS is capable of doing that, as it did in the past.

The problem is that the medical profession will hoover up any increase in funding for their own gain, in their selfish belief that they are immensely more worthy of large pay cheques than any of their health service colleagues.

Labour have only been in power for 140 days but there’s a palpable sense of disappointment - not just on here but in organs like the FT which reflect, if not shape, global business opinion.

Reeves gave a great Mais Lecture at the beginning of this year, and there’s no shortage of what I might New Model Growthers floating around the Labour tent. As I’ve posted before, what is missing is an overall sense of strategy - a reason to believe.

Something has gone very wrong.
I’m not sure Starmer has the imagination to course-correct.

Nothing's gone wrong. Labour increase tax and spend it on their clients - i.e. the public sector unions and the state-adjacent sector. 'Pro-growth' was only ever so much guff and wishful thinking. What's happening is happening by design. This is what Labour do.
{and yes, the last lot also focused spend on their clients in the 65+ demographic. I'm not playing angels and devils.}

The Tories need to junk the mollycoddling of the oldies. End the triple-lock.

Let them vote Labour or Reform if they want, and see what happens.

Poor figures for Labour and it's only going to get worse. The Tories will be in the lead on the economy by the middle of next year and it's because the outgoing government handed over 1.2% growth in H1 and Labour has trashed it in record time while putting up taxes by an unnecessary amount.

Everyone is going to feel worse off and Labour will take the blame for it as desperate as they are to try and push it on the previous government, businesses or anyone except themselves.

These next few years are going to be painful for everyone and I think the Tories need policies that will cut spending and cut public sector employment by a substantial number. We will continue down the road to Argentina if the Tories do nothing, a tax and spend death spiral.

Healthcare and welfare is the ballgame. It’s easier for a Labour government to reform then so I was rather hoping they would. They won’t, will they?

My instinct is that we need to radically rethink primary care, and obviously we need a proper answer on social care.

Social care needs a mandatory insurance provision that averages around £300 per person per year over 50. Not anything that will break the bank and subsidies available for people on low or fixed incomes. That would generate around £6bn per year which would fully fund social care at a stroke for everyone and it gets older people paying for their own care for just £10-12k lifetime insurance costs. Sure not everyone is going to need to use it but once people have it they'll wonder how we ever lived without the concept because the insurance will just handle all costs from day one without the hassle of having so sell property and with the risk so widely distributed over ~20m people there's no need for huge risk premiums as there would be now for the few people who would voluntarily purchase insurance of this kind.

As for healthcare shoveling money at the problem isn't the answer. It's all going to get pissed up the wall and the NHS management will be back asking for another £20bn in two years. It is a money pit and junking the whole system seems like the only way out right now.

#solutions - good work @MaxPB

That £22bn will be totally spunked up the wall on the NHS, and the Tories will have to get the scythe out again to get it under control again