{"id":132337,"date":"2024-07-12T09:15:47","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/britain-finally-has-a-female-chancellor-it-only-took-800-years\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T09:15:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T06:15:47","slug":"britain-finally-has-a-female-chancellor-it-only-took-800-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/britain-finally-has-a-female-chancellor-it-only-took-800-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain finally has a female chancellor \u2013 It only took 800 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132337\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nMeet Rachel Reeves: the chess-playing former banker who needs to get the U.K. economy rolling. England\u2019s first top finance minister was a man: \u201cHenry the Treasurer,\u201d a wealthy landowner from Hampshire who served King William the Conqueror after his invasion of 1066.Every subsequent chancellor of the exchequer \u2014 the archaic name for the nation\u2019s finance ministry established in the 12th century \u2014 has also been a man. Until now.<\/p>\n<p>From humble beginnings, Rachel Reeves, a former chess prodigy, Oxbridge graduate and Bank of England economist, now hopes to turn the U.K.\u2019s finances around as the first woman ever to take on the role. It\u2019s a historic landmark that\u2019s not lost on her. \u201cIt is \u2026 a huge privilege to be the first ever female chancellor of the exchequer,\u201d she told Treasury staff on her first day in the role last Friday. \u201cTo every young woman and girl watching this: let today show that there should be no ceilings on your ambitions, your hopes or your dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reeves\u2019 appointment by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, following the Labour Party\u2019s landslide win at the July 4 general election, was unsurprising. She and Starmer are famously close, and she had shadowed the role in opposition since 2021. But her beginnings are unusual compared to many of her predecessors as chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>Reeves, 45, has been the MP for Leeds West in the north of England since 2010. But she was born 200 miles south, in Lewisham, south east London \u2014 an area which has suffered crime and poverty for decades, and is in the top 20 percent of the most deprived local authorities in England. She was educated a comprehensive school in nearby Bromley. Her parents were both teachers, while her grandparents worked at a shoe factory in Kettering, Northamptonshire, where she recalls spending school holidays with her sister, Ellie Reeves, now also a Labour MP and minister of state in Starmer\u2019s Cabinet Office.<\/p>\n<p>A former national under-14 girls\u2019 chess champion, Reeves reveled in her ability to \u201cquietly thrash\u201d any boys who thought they could take on the young prodigy.That approach stayed with her through her journey to the peak of British politics, and has brought plaudits from around the world, including from U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen who congratulated Reeves on her \u201chistoric appointment as the first female chancellor of the exchequer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politics, and more specifically the Labour Party, has been a constant throughout Reeves\u2019 life. She grew up under Margaret Thatcher\u2019s Conservative government, with Tony Blair\u2019s New Labour elected as she reached university. (She and her sister joined the party just before the 1997 landslide victory). Her husband, Nicholas Joicey, is a high-flying civil servant who has worked in multiple government departments, including a long stint at the Treasury. Sister Ellie is married to Jon Cryer, an influential former Labour MP who stepped down at this month\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/rachel-reeves-female-chancellor-of-the-exchequer-uk-economy-financial-services-labour-party-keir-starmer\/\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/rachel-reeves-female-chancellor-of-the-exchequer-uk-economy-financial-services-labour-party-keir-starmer\/\">Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/britain-finally-has-a-female-chancellor-it-only-took-800-years\/\">Britain finally has a female chancellor \u2013 It only took 800 years<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[15267,579,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-132337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-female-chancellor","tag-uk","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}