ANGELA Rayner and Rachel Reeves are locked in a row over this week’s spending review — which fellow ministers have dubbed, “The War of the Roses”.

The Deputy PM was last night still refusing to sign up to her housing department’s budget.

Ms Rayner has been demanding billions more for home building.

Talks are going down to the wire, leaving Chancellor Ms Reeves with little time to get her numbers to add up before she presents her spending plans to Parliament on Wednesday.

If Ms Rayner — dubbed “Red ­Rayner” for her leftie views — refuses to agree to her budget then No11 will have to take the highly unusual step of imposing it on her.

One senior minister told The Sun on Sunday: “Things are tense. The two most powerful women in ­Cabinet can’t agree.

“It’s like War of the Roses. Angela r

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