Mayor of London Sadiq Khan says ceasefire will help prevent ‘devastating loss of life’Labour has sought to draw a line under a row over the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and allegations of plagiarism, as a frontbencher insisted her credibility had not been damaged.The shadow environment secretary, Steve Reed, defended Reeves as a “fantastic economist”, after it emerged that her new book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics, includes material from Wikipedia, the Guardian and remarks made by the shadow Northern Ireland secretary, Hilary Benn, without attribution, PA Media reports.Rachel was an economist working at the Bank of England. She will be an outstanding chancellor of the exchequer if Labour wins the next general election.I used to be a publisher for 18 years before I was a politician. And there were many, many cases where books would [be] written and the occasional citation was missing, and you correct it in the next edition. Continue reading…
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Publish date : 2023-10-27 11:49:10
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