Rachel Reeves row explodes as Peter Kyle slams BBC report on Chancellor | Politics | News [Video]

A BBC report about Rachel Reeves’s past sparked an on-air war between the corporation and a senior Cabinet minister.

The broadcaster has revealed that the Chancellor was investigated in 2009 over a complaint about expenses claims while working at Halifax bank.

It came after a whistleblowing complaint against her raised concerns that she and two other senior colleagues were using the bank’s cash to “fund a lifestyle” including spending on dinner, events, taxis and presents.

However, Science Secretary Peter Kyle blasted the BBC report as “totally inaccurate”.

Mr Kyle told the Today programme on Radio 4: “Unfortunately, the reporting has been totally inaccurate, and we heard yesterday that the person who was actually head of HR at that bank at that time says it’s untrue, said that she never, ever receive a file on Rachel Reeves.

“And she says that before she left the bank, there was no investigation that passed her desk. And she’s also said if there was one, it …