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Rachel Reeves: I’m sending billions from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine (www.thetimes.com)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

hahah, what the heck is with those opening two paragraphs?