Rachel Reeves has decided where Britain’s cash will go


Rachel Reeves detailed Britain's upcoming spending plans, allocating significant funds to various projects including nuclear energy, transportation, and border security.
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For almost an hour on June 11th the House of Commons felt like a bingo hall, or perhaps an auction house. Rachel Reeves reeled off a dizzying list of wildly varying numbers and time horizons, covering programme after programme funded in Britain’s spending review. Over the next five years, £14bn ($19bn) would go to a new nuclear plant. Over a decade, trains in Wales would get £445m. Each year, £280m more would go to border security.

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