'More Girls Like Us And Fewer Eton Boys Would Be Good Thing', Say Rachel And Ellie Reeves - Mirror...

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After Rachel Reeves got her GCSE results, one of the dads at a chess tournament made the mistake of asking how well she did.

"Oh," he said with surprise as she reeled off her list of top grades. "Girls at Cator Park can get good grades.⁘

Now she and her younger sibling Ellie, who is Labour's deputy campaign chief, could be on the verge of becoming the first sisters to sit around the Cabinet table. "People have always underestimated us," says Rachel, 45. "Underestimated us as girls and underestimated us because we didn't come from a hugely privileged background.

"I think a few more girls from Cator Park and a few less boys from Eton in the Cabinet would be quite a good thing for our country."

"She knew nothing about me," says the 43-year-old, who like Rachel went on to study at Oxford. "Absolutely nothing about me. This was purely based on the school that I went to and what people thought of girls that were at our school basically."

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