{"id":239509,"date":"2023-10-26T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/?p=239509"},"modified":"2023-10-26T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T11:34:17","slug":"labours-rachel-reeves-urged-to-explain-herself-amid-plagiarism-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovemainstream.com\/world-news\/labours-rachel-reeves-urged-to-explain-herself-amid-plagiarism-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour&apos;s Rachel Reeves urged to &apos;explain herself amid &apos;plagiarism&apos; row"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Labour&#8217;s Rachel Reeves urged to &#8216;explain herself amid &#8216;plagiarism&#8217; row over 20 examples of other people&#8217;s unattributed work found in her new book &#8211; as shadow chancellor insists they are &#8216;inadvertent mistakes&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>She said &#8216;inadvertent mistakes&#8217; in The Women Who Made Modern Economics<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Labour&#8217;s\u00a0Rachel Reeves is at the centre of a row over alleged plagiarism today after 20 unattributed examples of other people&#8217;s work were found in her new book.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The shadow chancellor admitted\u00a0&#8216;inadvertent mistakes&#8217; had been made in\u00a0The Women Who Made Modern Economics after the FT\u00a0<span>reported its journalists had identified entire paragraphs lifted from other sources without acknowledgement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It includes includes material from Wikipedia, The Guardian newspaper and remarks made by Labour MP Hilary Benn without attribution.<\/p>\n<p>Basic Books, the publisher, defended the Labour frontbencher, saying she had not sought to present the material as original research but acknowledged that &#8216;factual sentences&#8217; were not properly referenced in every instance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Ms Reeves said: &#8216;These were inadvertent mistakes and will be rectified in future reprints.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But Tory chairman Greg Hands said: &#8216;This is potentially very serious. For example, three German cabinet ministers have resigned since 2011 due to plagiarism &#8211; plagiarism which was much longer ago than these allegations in today&#8217;s FT.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Rachel Reeves needs to explain herself urgently.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/12\/77028011-12675361-image-a-2_1698318353575.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The shadow chancellor admitted &#8216;inadvertent mistakes&#8217; had been made in The Women Who Made Modern Economics after the FT reported its journalists had identified entire paragraphs lifted from other sources without acknowledgement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/26\/12\/77028179-12675361-image-a-1_1698318351370.jpg\" height=\"958\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>It included includes material from Wikipedia, The Guardian newspaper and remarks made by Labour MP Hilary Benn without attribution.<\/p>\n<p>The FT reported more than 20 examples had been found using manual checks rather than plagiarism detection software.<\/p>\n<p>The book by Ms Reeves, who hopes to become the first woman to serve as UK chancellor after a general election expected next year, gives biographical accounts of some of the women whose ideas have shaped modern economics.<\/p>\n<p>A sentence on the relationship between HG Wells and economist Beatrice Webb is exactly the same as one found on Wikipedia: &#8216;He responded by lampooning the couple in his 1911 novel The New Machiavelli as Altiora and Oscar Bailey, a pair of short-sighted, bourgeois manipulators.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, a foreword to a report on international development by Mr Benn, published on the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change website, appears to have been lifted almost word for word.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Benn wrote: &#8216;When we were elected in 1997, the amount of aid we gave as a proportion of our national income had halved over the preceding 18 years and was just 0.26 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;By the time we left office, we were on our way to achieving the 0.7 per cent target.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This was down to the political leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who brought the lives of the world&#8217;s poorest people into the heart of Whitehall.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Reeves wrote: &#8216;When Labour was elected in 1997, the amount of aid the UK gave as a proportion of our national income had halved over the preceding 18 years and stood at just 0.26 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;By the end of Labour&#8217;s time in office, in 2010, we were on our way to achieving the 0.7 per cent target.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This was down to the political leadership of Blair and Gordon Brown &#8211; and their first Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to 2002, Clare Short, who brought the lives of the world&#8217;s poorest people into the heart of government.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The FT also compared a sentence on the website Rethinkingpoverty.org.uk &#8211; &#8216;Laurencina was the daughter of a Liverpool merchant, Lawrence Heyworth, whose own family had been weavers at Bacup in Lancashire&#8217; &#8211; to one on in Ms Reeves&#8217; book &#8211; &#8216;Lawrencina was the daughter of a Liverpool merchant, Lawrence Heyworth, whose own family had been weavers at Bacup in Lancashire&#8217; &#8211; in which only the spelling of the name is different.<\/p>\n<p>Basic Books said in a statement: &#8216;There is an extensive and selective bibliography of over 200 books, articles and interviews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Where facts are taken from multiple sources, no author would be expected to reference each and every one,&#8217; the publisher said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;When factual sentences were taken from primary sources, they should have been rewritten and properly referenced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We acknowledge this did not happen in every case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;As always in instances such as these, we will review all sources and ensure any omissions are rectified in future reprints.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12675361\/Labours-Rachel-Reeves-plagiarism-row-book.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour&#8217;s Rachel Reeves urged to &#8216;explain herself amid &#8216;plagiarism&#8217; 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