Rachel Reeves Takes Axe To Whitehall Departments To Pay For Health And Defence Cash Splurge

Rachel Reeves leaves 11 Downing Street to announce the government's Spending Review in Parliament.

Eight Whitehall departments will see their budgets slashed so that more cash can be spent on the NHS and defence.

The Home Office and Department for Transport are among those facing real-terms reductions in their day-to-day budgets as a result of chancellor Rachel Reeves’s spending review.

She announced that an extra £300 billion will be spent by the government over the next three years.