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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a meeting at Downing Street in London with regulators. She is expected to use the meeting to announce more detail on how the Government will cut the cost of regulation by a quarter and set out plans to slim down or abolish regulators themselves, March 17, 2025
UNIONS and campaigners have urged Chancellor Rachel Reeves not to betray the public sector tomorrow by imposing cuts on pay and services amid crises in the NHS, education and fire services.
Ms Reeves is expected to announce spending cuts for some government departments in her spring statement to the Commons.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said yesterday that the government will not “alter the basics” of public spending but added that he wanted to “take some money out of government.”
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people
