Rachel Reeves

"I guess you could say that, moving from banking, I am one of the few people entering politics to be going to a more popular profession."

Rachel Reeves

"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."

Rachel Reeves

"Unless you take swift action in the wake of a financial crisis the problems stick around for 10 to 20 years."

Rachel Reeves