Peter Kyle Wrongly Claims There Was No Investigation into Reeves’ Expenses

Peter Kyle has this morning gone for a hard line on the BBC’s in-depth investigation into Rachel Reeves’ expenses investigation at HBOS. The science secretary told the Today Programme:

“Well unfortunately the reporting has been totally inaccurate and we heard yesterday that the person who is actually Head of HR at that bank at that time says it’s untrue, said that she never ever received a file on Rachel Reeves… she says that before she left the bank there was no investigation that passed her desk and and she also said if there was one it would have passed her desk… people can see that the person who ran the HR department said that there was no file that passed her desk.”