Did Labour make its own Budget trap?

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🗓️ 17 October 2024

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A scoop from Bloomberg has revealed that a number of Cabinet ministers have written formally to the Prime Minister to complain about the budgetary decisions they are being asked to make in their respective departments. Rachel Reeves seems to have an impossible task ahead of the Budget – but was this a trap of Labour's own making? Oscar Edmondson talks to Katy Balls and Kate Andrews.

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0:14.7	Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.
0:21.3	I'm Oscar Edmondson and I'm joined today by Katie Bulls and Kate Andrews
0:25.3	and there is more trouble for the Chancellor with a potential cabinet revolt.
0:29.7	Can you take us through it Katie?
0:31.2	Yeah just adding up to Rachel Reeves's issues ahead of this budget.
0:36.0	We're now less than a fortnight away from the budget.
0:39.0	We already know she's obviously coming up against criticism from some business figures about not going so far as to kill growth
0:45.3	but she also is facing a bit of a cabinet revolt first reported by Bloomberg
0:50.5	Angela Rayna Louise Haigig, the Transport Secretary,
0:53.8	Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary,
0:56.1	are among those to have put into writing
0:59.3	in a letter to the Prime Minister
1:00.8	that they are concerned about the cuts being suggested by the Treasury
1:04.6	and this pointing to potential cuts they've been asked to model a look at which could be up to
1:10.1	about 20% departmental spending cuts and these are real term cuts and therefore what is
1:17.0	striking here I suppose is it's not that surprising that some departments might have to
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