Rachel Reeves on the spot: The woman who could soon be Britain's first female chancellor tells the Mail how her bank account NEVER goes overdrawn - but she's not sure if she's ever kissed a Tory...
By Frances Hardy for the Daily Mail Published: 02:08 BST, 8 June 2024 | Updated: 02:08 BST, 8 June 2024 e-mail View comments Rachel Reeves , who will be the first ever female Chancellor of the Exchequer if Labour win the election, has the crisp authority of a headteacher. And then she laughs — a cartoon, ‘Ha!’ followed by a rich contralto chuckle — and any sense that she is forbidding or humourless is dissipated. You get this a lot with Reeves, 45.
A short lecture on fiscal responsibility leavened with a funny anecdote about her kids. She is on the campaign trail and earlier this week was up at dawn to fly from London to Edinburgh for a dizzying round of rallies, meet-and-greets and interviews, before bed at 12am. ‘I’m like Cinderella,’ she says.
‘I have a midnight curfew.’ She misses her husband Nick Joicey, 54, a senior civil servant, and their two children — a daughter aged 11 and an eight-year-old son — but says the kids have more licence when their dad’s in charge. In four weeks she could be our first female Chancellor - so we put Rachel Reeves to the test.
.. ‘I’m probably the strict one.
Nick lets them stay up later. He’s brilliant with them and is keeping the show on the road while I’m running round the country.’ READ MORE: 'No one.
