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spectator.co. I'm James Seal. I'm joined today by

Katie balls and Kate Andrews. Now Katie everyone in Westminster is looking ahead to

Monday now when there's going to be this Treasury audit by Rachel Reeves

about what the inheritance she's found having been in the job is chances for three weeks

tell us more. So this is the Treasury spending audit which they

claim is going to show the true scale of the issues inherited from the Conservative government.

Now one of the first things Labour did on entering government is Pat McFadden who is in the cabinet office

but previously worked under Rachel Reeves, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury

ordered all the departments to bring out your

dead, which was effectively try and find any unexpected problems, perhaps any

expected problems that they could claim are unexpected, but effectively just

nasties. So places where more spending is required, where there is a spending shortfall,

areas where perhaps the Tories in their previous spending plan said there would be cuts but those cuts look unachievable

Ultimately assess where the biggest dangers are poach department for delivering their aims and they've been working on this document

audit call it what you like project fear who knows and then the plan is for Rachel

Reuse to unveil that on Monday and then also give a speech effectively saying that

inheritance is even worse than we thought. So if you think about Liam Burns,

no money note that the Tories and the Lib Dems talked about for such a long time

from 2010 onwards.

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