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Fact check: 2025 spending review claims

Round-up of fact checks from the 2025 spending review compiled by Full Fact.

The Independent UK

Spending review delivers big boosts for health and defence – but Rachel Reeves is focused on investment

UK chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered the government’s spending review, setting out its plans and priorities for the next three years. The aim of the review is of course to allocate spending over that time period – but this government is keen for economic growth and so has directed the…

The Conversation

Spending review is a chance for Reeves to paint a more positive picture

Labour has so far struggled to explain its purpose and the need to do so will be all the more pressing if it raises taxes again

The Guardian - UK

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Unions pile pressure on Reeves to avoid cuts and impose wealth taxes

Exclusive: The TUC has ratcheted up pressure on the government to introduce wealth taxes amid a growing expectation that the chancellor will unveil a swathe of spending cuts next week

The Independent UK

UK tax rises in the autumn are essential – but who will pay?

Next week’s spring statement is buying time, but the writing is on the wall: Britain is broken, and repairs cost money, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

Report casts doubt on Labour’s ability to hit affordable housing target

Exclusive: Chancellor urged to increase funding as study suggests government has overestimated its housebuilding figures for England

The Guardian - UK

Reeves in standoff with ministers over proposed cuts to public services

IMF suggests chancellor could refine fiscal rules, but some fear policing and social housing face spending cuts

The Guardian - UK

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EU return should have been ‘top of the agenda’ for summit, says SNP

The Prime Minister is expected to announce a deal with the bloc.

Evening Standard

UK annual borrowing exceeds forecasts by almost £15bn in blow to Rachel Reeves

Chancellor may be forced to raise taxes or announce deeper public spending cuts, economists say

The Guardian - UK

‘The whole policy is wrong’: rebellion among Labour MPs grows over £5bn benefits cut

Dozens of MPs are angry at their party, despite frantic efforts by whips and government ministers to assuage them

The Guardian - UK

As Labour frustration grows, could OBR forecasts be cut to once a year?

Figures in No 10 feel the Office for Budget Responsibility’s twice-yearly reports undermine Rachel Reeves’ plan to scrap the spring statement

The Guardian - UK

Britain needs houses, and Labour’s bold plan will address that. But it may require more migrants

Ministers are ready to be relentless over planning reform. There is a skills gap though – and they must be brave enough to fill it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

MPs could vote on benefit cuts before knowing full details, Starmer says

Labour says its welfare reforms are designed to help people into work – but MPs might have to take that on faith

The Independent UK

Government will meet target of 1.5m homes, says Rayner after watchdog forecast

A Conservative former minister asked Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner to ‘confirm’ the 1.5 million new homes target ‘has gone’.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves must break her fiscal rules. Better now than later

There is already arguably too little flexibility in the chancellor’s budget plan. Trump’s tariffs chaos makes a rethink inevitable

The Independent UK

True scale of welfare cuts ‘closer to £9bn’, experts warn

Experts warn 100,000 more people plunged into poverty by cuts than government previously estimated

Evening Standard

Fact check: Economic growth is forecast to slow in 2027 and 2028

Growth is not expected to go up in 2027 or 2028, although the economy will continue to grow.

The Independent UK

Extra 400,000 people to be signed off as unfit for work under Labour’s welfare reforms, government admits

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has insisted the changes are needed to fix the ‘broken’ system left by the last Conservative government

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The Independent UK

How might Trump tariffs affect UK business on ‘Liberation Day’?

Analysis: Sweeping changes set to affect the UK and ultimately large parts of the world

Evening Standard

‘Very limited’ tariff war could be ‘mildly positive’ for UK, suggests OBR member

MPs were told there could be a scenario where some things become cheaper in the UK, but most possible outcomes are still ‘negative’.

Evening Standard

Spending more on benefits would be ‘wrong approach’, Jackie Baillie says

Scottish Labour’s deputy leader defended the UK Government’s welfare cuts as she said the rise in the benefit bill is ‘unsustainable’.

The Guardian - UK

Planning changes offer a bright spot for Rachel Reeves – but grey areas exist

OBR’s verdict of a long-term 0.4% boost to GDP from fewer building restrictions will have real political impact but there are gaps in funding

The Guardian - UK

The storm-battered chancellor needs her nextdoor neighbour to be a steadfast friend

Even if the UK manages to dodge the worst of Donald Trump’s tariffs, we will still suffer from the fallout of a global trade war

The Guardian - UK

MPs to vote on disability benefit cuts without knowing ‘full impact’

Britain’s economic watchdog may not publish forecast of employment prospects until the end of October

The Guardian - UK

Who is running Britain’s economy – Rachel Reeves or Donald Trump?

The chancellor’s careful calculations for her spring statement are likely to be blown out of the water by a looming US trade war

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