The Treasury has ordered cabinet ministers to be “ruthless” in identifying public spending cuts as Labour battles to prove its economic plan is working. An internal letter from Number 11 about Rachel Reeves’s spending review, seen by The Telegraph, admits that “difficult” decisions on budgets will be needed.

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Public spending cuts are set to be “ruthless”, the Treasury has reportedly warned cabinet ministers. Departments will have to make “difficult” decisions on their budget priorities, according to an internal letter from No11 about the spending review, the Telegraph reported. While the Prime Minister’s official spokesman confirmed “there’s nothing off the table when it comes to delivering value for money for taxpayers”. It comes as the Prime Minist…

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Rachel Reeves has been warned by Labour MPs against seeking spending cuts if the UK’s borrowing costs continue to soar this week.Labour backbenchers said the Government could not “cut [its] way out of a crisis” and that it was a “fiction” that public services did not need “better funding through taxation”.The intervention comes at the start of a critical week for Sir Keir Starmer’s government after 2025 started with a sharp increase in Britain’s…

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