Question Time audience member skewers Labour minister over Reeves CV | Politics | News [Video]

A BBC Question Time audience member has grilled a minister over Rachel Reeves’s CV.

The Chancellor on Thursday updated her job history on professional networking site LinkedIn to reflect she worked at Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) for longer than she had previously said.

The Chancellor’s page had previously suggested her stint at the Bank of England, which she has previously referenced to reinforce her credentials, lasted months longer than it now says.

But an audience member asked Skills Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith why people should believe what they see on the professional networking site.

The audience member asked: “Has she just completley undermined LinkedIn, saying there’s no truth in it because a member of her staff put it on. Why should we believe what’s on LinkedIn anymore?”

Baroness Smith had suggested earlier in the programme that the LinkedIn page was not a CV, which is a separate document handed to employers when searching for jobs.

She said: “What we’re talking …