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Rachel Reeves wings it on Twitter and reveals US trip was club class
Rachel Reeves landed in New York to find the Tories claiming that she was guilty of double standards
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The Times
Rachel Reeves has always been at pains to make sure Labour’s economic policies are not seen as an unpopular turn to the left.
Yesterday the shadow chancellor extended that mantra to air travel, deleting a tweet that inadvertently revealed she had taken a business class flight to New York.
Reeves had intended the tweet to promote her trip to America as part of Labour’s move to present itself as a government-in-waiting.
The seat number on Reeves’s boarding card revealed that she was in BA’s Club World suite, which costs about £4,000 a ticket
However alongside a pledge to “restore” the UK’s “economic dignity at home and abroad” she included a picture of her British Airways boarding card. Almost — but not quite — hidden by the shadow chancellor’s passport was her seat number 3K, which eagle-eyed opponents quickly pointed out is in BA’s Club World suite and
