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Is chancellor’s spending assessment the beginning of a ‘nationwide renewal’ – or too good to be true?

By Editorial Board Published June 11, 2025 8 Min Read
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Is chancellor’s spending assessment the beginning of a ‘nationwide renewal’ – or too good to be true?

If you happen to sat via the whole spending assessment speech delivered by Rachel Reeves within the Home of Commons, you may need been lulled into a way that the UK was awash with a wealth of riches because the chancellor sprinkled billions throughout the land.

There have been billions for social housing, nuclear energy stations, rail traces and analysis and growth to energy the financial system.

There was cash for faculties, the police, the NHS, and defence spending, because the chancellor sketched out her roadmap for Britain for years to come back, with an acknowledgement that the federal government – and notably this chancellor – had endured a troublesome first yr.

“We are renewing Britain. But I know that too many people in too many parts of our country are yet to feel it…the purpose of this spending review is to change that,” she mentioned.

There was £113bn of borrowing to fund capital funding and an additional £190bn over the course of the parliament for public companies, fuelled by these contentious tax rises within the finances final autumn. This was a Labour chancellor turning her again on austerity.

“In place of decline, I choose investment. In place of retreat, I choose national renewal,” she mentioned.

The chancellor deserves credit score for the capital funding, which she hopes will unlock jobs and energy financial progress. However when one thing sounds too good to be true, it usually is.

For me, former shadow chancellor John McDonnell hit the nail on the pinnacle on Wednesday evening as he remarked moderately wryly to me that “the greater the applause on the day, the greater the disappointment by the weekend”.

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3:43

Sky’s economics editor Ed Conway seems to be on the key takeaways from the spending assessment.

Might tax hikes be wanted?

As a result of, in speaking up the prospect of nationwide renewal, the chancellor glossed over what the “hard choices” imply for all of us.

There are questions now swirling about the place the cuts may fall in day-to-day budgets for these departments that are unprotected, with native authorities, the Residence Workplace, the Overseas Workplace, and the Division for Surroundings all going through real-terms cuts.

My colleague Ed Conway, analysing the federal government figures, discovered cuts within the faculties finances for the final two years of this parliament – the chancellor’s high line determine confirmed an general rise of 0.6% over the five-year interval of this Labour authorities.

There are questions too over whether or not council tax payments is perhaps elevated with a purpose to high up native authorities and police budgets.

Ms Reeves informed me in an interview after her speech that they will not, however she has predicated will increase in police funding and native authorities funding coming domestically, moderately than from central authorities, so I shall be watching how that may play out.

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Rachel Reeves and Beth Rigby

4:28

The chancellor tells Sky Information council tax is not going to should rise because of measures in her spending assessment.

Even with the rise in well being spending – the NHS is getting a 3% increase in its annual finances – there are questions from well being consultants whether or not it will likely be sufficient for the federal government to hit a routine operations goal of treating 92% of sufferers inside 18 weeks.

My level is that this may not be – to once more quote Mr McDonnell – “mathematical austerity”, however after over a decade the place public dissatisfaction in public companies has grown, the squeeze of day-to-day spending might make it exhausting for the chancellor to influence working individuals it is a authorities delivering the change for them.

There may be stress to reverse a few of the welfare cuts, and stress to raise the two-child profit cap, whereas the stress to reverse the winter gasoline allowance has already resulted in Reeves this week making a £1.25bn unfunded spending dedication (she is going to set out how she is paying for it on the subsequent finances).

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Treasury minister Emma Reynolds

10:03

Treasury minister refuses to rule out tax rises later this yr.

Will voters really feel the ‘renewal’?

Reeves informed me on Wednesday there was no want for tax rises within the autumn as a result of the spending envelope had already been set, and the cash now divvied out. It is a very stay query as as to if that may maintain if the financial system weakens.

She didn’t rule out additional tax rises once I requested her final week, whereas Treasury minister Emma Reynolds informed my colleague Ali Fortescue on Wednesday evening: “I’m not ruling it in, I’m not ruling it out.”

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The gamble is that, by investing in infrastructure and getting spades within the floor, and tilting restricted public cash into the NHS, the federal government can arrive on the subsequent election with sufficient ‘proof factors’ to influence voters to stay with them for one more 5 years.

On Wednesday, the chancellor laid the foundations she hopes will flip the federal government’s fortunes round. The chance is that voters will not really feel the identical by the point they’re requested to decide on.

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