Reeves locked in UK spending review showdown with four ministers

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Despite the allies ‘demands, Chancellor is raising $ 300 billion in parliament, Rachel Reeves is showing a showdown with four top cabinet ministers, despite the Allies’ demands.

Angela Rainner, Deputy Prime Minister, Fighting In order to protect housing and local government budget, Home Secretary Yavet Cooper is trying to increase the cost of the police to meet the crime-cut “mission” of labor.

Government officials, meanwhile, confirmed that Ed Milliband, Energy Secretary and Education Secretary Bridge Philipson could not settle their budget, though the final decision would be announced on June 7.

The biggest battle with the milliband treasury is locked, including “warm houses” insulation plans, carbon capture projects and new state power company GB Energy.

Reeves’ Allies said that the “huge majority” of the Whitehol categories now settled their budget for the next three years, those ministers went out for a better deal to fight on it MowThe

But inside the government, the Chancellor’s critics said that the reeves and “accountants” in the treasury are now setting official policy, ignoring the “missions” prescribed by Sir Care Starmar in the laboratory election manifesto. “It’s crazy,” an officer said.

They argued that Treasury had settled the budget with the low priority department, so now it was an arbitration in financial trade-offs between fields like education, police, housing and green energy programs.

This outlook cannot be shared in the treasury, which argues that Reeves are not rigid Chancellors depicted by some labor MPs, and he has already loose the purse-strings in most.

“This expenditure review has $ 300 billion to distribute between the categories due to the decision taken by the Chancellor in the budget of the last year,” one says Reeves Ally.

The budget of Reeves was looted last October Financial rule Capital expenditure, the Chancellor allows the distribution of $ 113 billion in the rest of the parliament for roads, railways, green energy and other infrastructure projects.

Meanwhile, Reeves’ team says he will spend more than 190 billion dollars to spend a day in Parliament in five years than the Conservatives plan. Herself Budget in October Taxes increase $ 40 billion in a year and add £ 28 billion orrow to an average of parliament every year.

“The message of the expense review is that we will invest in Britain’s renewal,” said Reeves Ally. “We will invest in the country’s security, health and economy.”

Reeves are Under the pressure of Labor MPs In order to raise taxes or to relax for more expenditures of the rules for taking or orrow, the Chancellor will emphasize that he has already been presided over by enough financial loose.

According to an official, the Labor MPs are invited to visit Reeves and his deputy Darren Jones in the coming days.

The Treasury is also rewritten in its “green book”, the structure of evaluating the quality of public projects to ensure that more cash has been allocated to the “productive” regions outside London and southeast.