How Labour’s spending review was shaped by Reform UK

How Labour’s spending review was shaped by Reform UK

The chancellor insisted her choices were ‘Labour choices’. But as I watched her deliver her statement, I couldn’t help thinking that much of it was aimed at seeing off the rising threat to Labour from Nigel Farage, writes Andrew Grice

How the environmental sector responded to Labour’s Spending Review

Defence and healthcare were big winners in yesterday’s overarching fiscal announcement, but what about the climate crisis? UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivered her 2025 spending review on Wednesday afternoon. The speech promised big things, like an additional £11billion and £600million for security and intelligence services respectively, and an extra £29billion for the NHS.  Both figures are dwarfed by the promise of £113billion set to be spent…