Oddly enough, this isn't the worst incident of plagiarism by Rachel Reeves.
That would have to be when in 2016 she seemingly lifted from Enoch Powell's infamous 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of potential race riots, and suggesting some communities were a potential "tinderbox" if immigration wasn't drastically curbed following the Brexit vote.
She has not apologised for this speech in the following 7 years.
Not did Labour denounce the speech when she made it.
How old is the rivers of blood speech as surely copyright ends 70 years after it is published.
So maybe it is out of copyright, that still should mean it should be cited properly and acknowledge to Enoch Powell.
@zleap Copyright expires 70 years after the death of the author.
Which in Powell's case would be 2068.
Even if it was after the speech itself was delivered, that would be 2038, as it was 1968 that he gave it.
Still no excuse to Plagiarism but MPs seem to be in their own world a lot of the time.
@zleap MPs and various other elected officials have form for plagiarising for speeches.
For example Daniel Hannan when he was a Tory MEP was praised for a speech he gave at the EU in 2009, where he called Gordon Brown "the devalued Prime Minister of a devalued Government".
He had stolen that from a statement that the late John Smith had made across the despatch box to Tory Prime Minister John Major in 1992.