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Scotland Yard boss warns of ‘stark choices about which crimes we no longer prioritise’ if the police’s funding plea is ignored

In a letter to Sir Keir Starmer, Sir Mark Rowley warned that cuts to police budgets will have ‘far-reaching consequences’, it has been reported.

The package for mayoral authorities is expected to include funding to extend the metros in Tyne and Wear, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands.

Ahead of next week’s statement, the chancellor is to announcing transport investments outside London

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: With next week’s spending review, the chancellor has a chance to correct all the mistakes she made in her first months at the Treasury. She should do all she can to put the government back in charge of events, rather than be pushed around by them

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Chancellor is facing a push to consider wealth taxes instead of cuts before she publishes her spending review next week

COMMENT: As the mayor of Greater Manchester proposes a ‘popular left programme’ – just days after the mayor of London defied Downing Street with a new plan for drug laws – is the prime minister under threat from colleagues with their own fiefdoms, asks John Rentoul

Partha Dasgupta’s landmark study provided way to put a value on nature – but many fear report has been sidelined