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🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
0:09.8 | Today, Rachel Reeves gets her wallet out, but will taxes have to rise to pay the bill? |
0:19.4 | We now come, I call the Chancellor of the Exchequer to make a statement. |
0:28.5 | Rachel Reeves. |
0:32.5 | Rachel Reeves, Britain's Chancellor, stood up in Parliament yesterday to deliver the government's |
0:37.7 | spending review. |
0:38.5 | Thank you, Mr Speaker. |
0:40.2 | My driving purpose since I became Chancellor is to make working people in all parts of our |
0:45.7 | country better off. |
0:47.3 | I know, I know. |
0:49.2 | It feels like I've started a lot of episodes like this since Labour swept to power last July. |
0:54.3 | Rachel Reeves standing up in front of braying MPs and delivering this or that statement, |
1:00.5 | review or budget. But stay with us. You've not accidentally clicked on an old episode. |
1:06.2 | This is actually pretty important. |
1:19.1 | The priorities of this spending review are the priorities of working people. To invest in Britain's security, in Britain's health, and to grow Britain's economy so |
1:25.2 | that working people are better off. |
1:34.2 | It sets out the government's spending plans, not just for this year, but for the next three years. |
1:38.6 | And for a government that is often accused of lacking direction and ambition, |
1:42.7 | it's a chance for it to show what its priorities are and aren't. I am investing 39 billion pounds over the next decade. |
1:46.7 | Direct government funding to support house building. |
1:50.5 | We are investing over two and a half billion pounds in a new small modular reactor |
1:56.0 | program. Investments in buses in Rochdale. |
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