Rachel Reeves 'I'm sick of people mansplaining my job'

Rachel Reeves has said she is sick of people “mansplaining” how to be chancellor to her as she prepares to deliver her budget next week.

- Rowena Mason

Reeves made the comments in an interview with the Times in which she spoke of the pressure of being the UK’s first female chancellor and the subject of constant political attacks.

She said it motivated her “a bit” to show she was making the right decisions to those “boys who now write newspaper columns” or describe her as “Rachel from accounts”.

“I recognise that I’ve got a target on me,” she said in the interview with Tom Baldwin, a journalist and former Labour communications adviser to Ed Miliband.

“You can see that in the media; they’re going for me all the time. It’s exhausting. But I’m not going to let them bring me down by undermining my character or my confidence. I’ve seen off a lot of those boys before and I’ll continue to do so.”

Reeves later added: “I’m sick of people mansplaining how to be chancellor to me.”