Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused of overstating chess championship win

Reeves between a rook and a hard place after claims she 'made up' chess championship

The chancellor's opponents say the Treasury queen has become a pawn - but it's too soon to tell if the chess attack is a checkmate or a stalemate.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves accused of overstating chess championship win

Ms Reeves has used her love of the board game to promote herself as a strategic and competitive Chancellor

Rachel Reeves left red-faced as her 'chess champion' claims exposed

In 2023, Rachel Reeves revealed: 'I am - I was - a geek. I played chess. I was the British girls' under-14 champion'.

Reeves Between A Rook And A Hard Place After Claims She 'made Up' Chess Championship

“We now know the black hole was fake, the chancellor’s book was fake, her CV was fake – even her chess claims are made up,” said the Tory leader. Politics Live: Labour MP who voted against inheritance tax suspended “She doesn’t belong in the Treasury; she belongs in la-la land.” Chess claims made up? Where did that attacking move from Kemi come from? Hasn’t the chancellor told us for years that she was a national chess champion in 1993? Indeed s…

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As an opening gambit at PMQs, Kemi Badenoch attacked Labour’s knight, the prime minister, over his Treasury queen, Rachel Reeves. “We now know the black hole was fake, the chancellor’s book was fake, her CV was fake – even her chess claims are made up,” said the Tory leader. Politics Live: Labour MP who voted against inheritance tax suspended “She doesn’t belong in the Treasury; she belongs in la-la land.” Chess claims made up? Where did that at…