If I was Reeves, I would edit my CV, too. Although I’d have gone a lot further than she did.

Yesterday, it emerged that the chancellor had “updated” her profile on business social media platform LinkedIn to remove a claim that she worked as an economist at the Bank of Scotland between 2006 and 2009.

She came clean and said her role was in “retail banking” instead.

Economist is a fancy title that makes people sound clever and senior, so I can understand why she’d prefer that.

Yet…