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Everything Rachel Reeves promised in Spending Review, including new asylum rules
- Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a £29 billion increase in NHS funding and £39 billion for social and affordable housing over the next decade.
- The government plans to end the use of asylum hotels, projected to save £1 billion annually, according to Rachel Reeves.
- Total departmental budgets will grow by 2.3 percent a year in real terms, despite warnings from critics about potential tax increases due to tight fiscal conditions.
- Defence spending will rise to 2.6% of GDP by April 2027, with the Ministry of Defence receiving significant funding boosts.
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Reeves Pledges Boost to Health, Housing, and Defence in Multi-Year Spending Review
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered her first multi-year Spending Review, pledging major investments in health, housing, defence, and infrastructure. In her statement to the House of Commons on Wednesday, Reeves said the financial injections in the NHS, affordable housing, transport, and nuclear energy would “make working people better off.” However, critics warned that Labour’s financial commitments in the review could lead to tax increases …
The spending review was 45 minutes I will never get back
Rachel Reeves looked a little surprised at the cheers from the Labour benches that greeted her as she stood to give the Commons details of the spending review. As well she might: there can’t be many places where her presence is met with such enthusiasm; the National Reserve of Mauritius perhaps? Or Reform HQ? I’m
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