Rachel Reeves

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The Right Honourable Rachel Reeves
Official portrait, 2017
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
Incumbent
Assumed office 9 May 2021
Leader	Keir Starmer
Preceded by	Anneliese Dodds
Chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee
In office 12 July 2017 – 6 May 2020
Preceded by	Iain Wright
Succeeded by	Darren Jones
Shadow portfolios 2010–2021 Senior portfolios 2020–2021 Duchy of Lancaster 2020–2021 Cabinet Office (de facto) 2013–2015 Work and Pensions 2011–2013 Chief Secretary to the Treasury Junior portfolios 2010–2011 Pensions
Member of Parliament for Leeds West
In office 6 May 2010 – 30 May 2024
Preceded by	John Battle
Majority	10,564 (26.2%)
Personal details
Born	Rachel Jane Reeves (1979-02-13) 13 February 1979 (age 45) Lewisham, London, England
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Nicholas Joicey
Children	2
Relatives	Ellie Reeves (sister)
Alma mater	New College, Oxford London School of Economics
Signature
Website	Official website
Rachel Reeves' voice Reeves outlines her modern supply-side economics policy, which she later termed securonomics Recorded 15 July 2022

Rachel Jane Reeves (born 13 February 1979) is a British politician serving as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer since 2021. A member of the Labour Party, she has been Member of Parliament for Leeds West since 2010.

Reeves studied at New College, Oxford and the London School of Economics before working at the Bank of England and then HBOS. Elected at the 2010 general election, she served in Ed Miliband's Shadow Cabinet as Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 2011 to 2013 and Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions from 2013 to 2015.

Reeves became a backbencher following Jeremy Corbyn's election as Labour leader in 2015, and served as chair of the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee from 2017 to 2020. After Keir Starmer was elected as leader in 2020 he appointed her Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, shadowing Michael Gove. In May 2021 Reeves replaced Anneliese Dodds as Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. In this role she has adhered to "modern supply-side economics", an economic policy which focuses on infrastructure, education and labour supply by rejecting tax cuts and deregulation: in 2023 she coined the term "securonomics" to refer to her version of this economic policy.