Rachel Reeves could announce financial changes for UK households at next week’s spending review - despite Downing Street not regarding this as a fiscal event.

The Labour Party government hinted at tensions between cabinet colleagues saying she had had to turn down spending requests as she struggled to balance the books.

Her cuts come off the back of “14 years of Conservative maltreatment of our public services, our public realm and of our economy”, she said. “Not every department will get everything that they want next week,” she said, “and I have had to say no to things that I want to do too.”

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The chancellor also ruled out bending her fiscal rules, which she acknowledged would be the subject of much d

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