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Rachel Reeves

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  1. “Yes, I am, and I think they play a really important part in providing our country with the economic stability that we desperately need. Families need stability to plan ahead. Businesses need stability to invest for the future. And it's why when Keir Starmer and the shadow cabinet set out last week, the first steps that we were taking government, the number one thing we committed to was to bring back economic stability because we haven't had that. Stability is change after these last 14 years.”

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  2. “I think what they did was utterly wrong. I remember during the leadership contest, Liz Truss and Kwasi-Kwatang said that they didn't believe in abacus economics. Well, I think being able to add up as Chancellor of the Exchequer is pretty important. And they forgot that basic rule. And the thing about institutions, whether it is the Treasury, the Independent Bank of England, or the Office of Budget Responsibility only created in 2010 by George Osborne is provide checks and balances in the system and institutional knowledge as well. And what Quasi Quarting did was sack the respected permanent secretary of the Treasury, Tom Scholar. He wouldn't allow the Office for Budget Responsibility to do a forecast. And they spent the summer, the two of them, Trust and Quatting and Jacob Rees-Mog as well, undermining the Bank of England. That was incredibly dangerous. And you saw the impact of that. The financial market impact of their mini budget was in large part because of the scale of the”

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  3. “Well, okay, fine, but they were given the time on the floor of the house by the Labor government, and they would not have got through without the implicit support of the government and crucially of the whip's office and Roder Jenkins. And Alice Bacon took all of those bills through the committee stage. So social liberal reforms like abortion, homosexuality, the death penalty, she then went on to be an education minister who was involved with bringing in comprehensive education, something which I care passionately about. Anthony Crossland was Secretary of State. She was a schools minister. So yes, I'm very, very interested in labour history. But just going back to your point, my politics is defined by when I was born. I was born in 1979. Ellie was born in 1980. We are both children of that Thatcherite revolution. And we rebelled against it. We disagreed with the direction she took our country in, which is why when...”

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  4. “Well, I wrote a book about the first female MP in Leeds, a woman called Alice Bacon, who was the MP for Leeds North East and then Leeds Southeast between 1945 and 1970s. So she was an MP in Clement Attlee's first Labour government, and then she was a minister in Harold Wilson's administrations from 64 to 70. She was deputy to Roy Jenkins when he introduced all of the social liberal reforms. Well, they came from backbench MPs, but ushered in by a Labour government.”

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  5. “Well, look, Ellie and me, we both got involved in politics when we were at secondary school because we wanted to change things, and she met her husband, John, through politics. I met my husband when we both worked in Washington. I was working at the British Embassy, and he was on secondment from government and working at the IMF at the time. So we met through our work too.”

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  6. “So actually, I'm a huge admirer of Theresa May. And when I wrote a book about women in politics, and she was Prime Minister at the time, she afforded me an hour of her time in the summer recess just before she did her surgery in Maidenhead Town Hall. And I thought, you are an amazing woman. You know, it's August. You're still doing your surgeries. And you've also found time to talk about something that she is passionate about, like I am as well, getting more women into politics and other areas of public life. We've never spoken about the Bank of England. We worked in quite different areas. I think she studied geography at university. And obviously I was an economist and I was there after Bank of England independence when the bank had responsibility for monetary policy again. So I worked as an economist in the monetary policy area of the bank.”

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  7. “Two years later, when I was in that position to do my university applications, I asked one of my teachers about it, and they gave me the sort of the brochure or whatever for Oxford. And there's all these colleges, and I didn't know anything about the college system. So I asked what college Natalie had gone to, because Natalie was the girl two years older who had applied and got in. One of the two girls had got in. And I just applied for that college because I thought, well, they took a risk on a girl who went to a school that had no history of coming to a university like this. And then I got in and yeah, it was amazing and it was transformational for me.”

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  8. “Yes, so I was the third person ever from my school to go. And I remember two years before when I was in year 11 at secondary school, so doing my GCSEs. And our head teacher did this assembly. And she said, for the first time, two girls from our school are at Oxford University today doing the Oxford interview. And I want everybody to be thinking of them today. And something just in my head was like, maybe I could go there because I was one of the most academic kids and I was getting good grades and I'd never thought about it before. My dad had said to me when I was a bit younger earlier at secondary school, you should go to university and you should go away to university so that, you know, you can get that experience. My mum and dad had been to teach a training college, but neither of them got a university degree when they were younger. My dad later went on and studied to get a degree. So I sort of knew I was going to go to university, but suddenly this talk about going to Oxford.”

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