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Spending review: a return to austerity?

Spending review: a return to austerity?

Update: 2024-12-10

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Preparations are stepping up for the government’s spending review, due in June. The Chancellor has taken a more personable approach to communicating with ministers, writing to them to outline how they plan to implement the Budget – with a crackdown on government waste and prioritising key public services. So, expect money for clean energy, the NHS, and more ‘difficult decisions’. Will Rachel Reeves’s war on waste work? How will this all go down within the Labour Party and the Cabinet?

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Kate Andrews.

Produced by Oscar Edmondson.

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