Rachel Reeves is the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and has served as Member of Parliament for Leeds West since 2010. 

She has previously served as Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office; Chair of the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Select Committee and as Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. 

Before entering Parliament, she worked as an economist for HBOS and for the Bank of England. She is the author of Women of Westminster: The MPs Who Changed Politics (Bloomsbury, 2019) and Alice in Westminster: The Political Life of Alice Bacon (IB Tauris, 2016).