Rachel Reeves admits mistakes after being accused of plagiarism in new book

Shadow chancellor says she holds her hands up' in response to FT piece on seemingly copied passages in work on female economists

Rachel Reeves has said she holds her hands up and acknowledges making mistakes in her new book about female economists after she faced allegations of plagiarism.

The shadow chancellor admitted on Thursday that some sentences in her book, The Women Who Made Modern Economics, were not properly referenced in the bibliography".