Rachel Reeves defends spending review as she admits latest growth figures ‘disappointing'
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Date: 2025-06-12T07:09:40.000Z
Title: Rachel Reeves gives interviews after delivering spending review on Wednesday
Content: Good morning. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, got a good reception from MPs when she addressed them yesterday after delivering her spending review. But she cannot avoid questions about whether taxes might have to rise in the autumn, and growth figures for April out this morning undermine the claim that the economy is turning round.
Reeves is giving interviews this morning. Commenting on the growth figures, she said they were 'clearly disappointing'.
Our number one mission is delivering growth to put more money in people's pockets through our Plan for Change, and while these numbers are clearly disappointing, I'm determined to deliver on that mission.
In yesterday's spending review we set out how we'll deliver jobs and growth – whether that's improving city region transport, a record investment in affordable homes or funding Sizewell C nuclear power station. We're investing in Britain's renewal to make working people better off.
Here is the agenda for the day.
Morning: Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is doing a morning interview round. She is on the Today programme at 8.10am.
9am: The Resolution Foundation publishes its spending review analaysis.
10.30am: The Institute for Fiscal Studies publishes its spending review analysis.
10.50am: Kemi Badenoch gives a speech at the Peel Hunt FTSE250 conference in London.
11.30am: Downing Street holds a lobby briefing.
Noon: John Swinney, Scotland's first minister, takes questions from MSPs.
1pm: Wes Streeting, the health secretary, gives a speech at the NHS Confederation conference in Manchester.
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