Spending review: Reeves vows to ‘renew Britain’ with big rises for NHS, housing and defence
by Jessica Elgot and Richard Partington from on (#6XXDD)
Chancellor pledges to end spending on asylum hotels, as she contrasts Labour investment with Tory austerity
Rachel Reeves has pledged billions to be invested in energy, housing, transport and infrastructure, promising that the effects would be felt in all corners of the country and decrying austerity as a destructive choice".
Announcing the government's spending review, the chancellor made a high-stakes promises to cut spending on controversial issues such as asylum hotels by the end of the parliament, which she said would save 1bn.
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