Liz Kendall and Rachel Reeves are two of the highest-fliers from the 2010 intake, and have both done enough to make it to the Shadow Cabinet table. But they don’t look especially alike, do they? Well they do if you’re Tory Defence Minister Philip Hammond, who muddled the two up on Question Time by calling Kendall “Rachel”. So she pulled him up on it:
“I know we all look the same” – ouch…


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