While visiting the V&A Waterfront in the shadow of Table Mountain, Cape Town, Rachel Reeves chanced upon a boy playing a giant game of chess with his father. Unable to resist, the chancellor, a teenage chess whizz, began offering her advice to the child. He ended up three pieces down.
Reeves, 46, who was in South Africa for a meeting of the G20 finance ministers, left the pair to it. “It was a lost cause,” she added.
Reeves will be hoping the 4D game of chess she is playing with the country’s delicate finances, including funding the largest increase to defence spending since the end of the Cold War, will have a better outcome.
Her task has arguably become tougher thanks to the row between
im_thatoneguy on March 1st, 2025 at 22:13 UTC »
For those like me who don’t know who is who in the British cabinet:
Chancellor of the Exchequer
MaximumCelsius on March 1st, 2025 at 19:48 UTC »
All of the russian assets abroad should be confiscated and used to help Ukraine. Only reason why its not done is because everyone is actually deeply invested in russia and they would face the same.
definitivescribbles on March 1st, 2025 at 19:46 UTC »
Stop stealing land and you won’t have to worry about your assets being seized and paid into defense. Fuck off Putin