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Spending review: Reeves vows to ‘renew Britain’ with big rises for NHS, housing and defence

The Guardian - Energy · Jessica Elgot and Richard Partington · last updated

Chancellor pledges to end spending on asylum hotels in four years, as she contrasts Labour investment with Conservatives’ 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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