A SECOND Cabinet minister was accused of sexing up their CV last night.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, above, repeatedly described himself as a solicitor despite never qualifying.
The Tories said last night he may have broke the law as impersonating a lawyer is an offence.
Reynolds had claimed online and in the Commons chamber that he worked as a solicitor for Manchester firm Addleshaw Goddard before becoming an MP – but he was only a trainee.
In 2011 he tweeted: “Personally, I find being an MP better for work/life balance than being a solicitor and a councillor.”
In a speech in 2014 that he “worked as a solicitor in Manchester city centre” before entering Parliament.
But he never completed his training after quitting to become and MP in 2010 as was never registered with Solicitors Regulation Authority, according to the Guido Fawkes blog.
Last night his office said the claims were a “mistake”.
But Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith hit out: “There is a clear pattern here.
A Labour Party misleading voters, a Chancellor who lied about being an economist and now another minister who has lied about being a solicitor.
Keir Starmer needs to get a grip on his party’s relationship with the truth.” It comes after Chancellor Rachel Reeves was forced to change her online CV after boasting she had worked as a economist at the Bank of England for a decade.
And she removed claims she had been an economist at the Bank of Scotland between 2006 and 2009 after it emerged she actually worked in the complaints department.
Since then she has faced questions over her expenses and other claims she had written for a respected economic publication.
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