Rachel Reeves left red-faced as truth behind her 'British chess champion' claims revealed.
In 2023, Rachel Reeves revealed: "I am - I was - a geek. I played chess. I was the British girls' under-14 champion".
Rachel Reeves is at the centre of yet more controversy after she was accused of erroneously claiming to have been a British junior chess champion. The Chancellor has made much of her prowess at the game over the years, and earlier this year announced that the Government was investing £1.5m in a quest to identify chess prodigies and turn them into future grandmasters.
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In 2023, she told The Guardian: “I am — I was — a geek. I played chess. I was the British girls’ under-14 champion”. She also posed with a chessboard in pictures taken prior the Budget - but it now appears she may have overstated the case. Alex Edmans, a professor of finance at the London Business School, himself a talented junior player, accused the Chancellor of misrepresenting her credentials. Express.
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