While the focus has been on the crisis in Ukraine and need for European nations to boost their defence budget, Rachel Reeves’s main role has been to sign cheques for President Volodymyr Zelensky’s war effort and increase funding for British military and security.
But the focus is about to fall sharply on to the chancellor as she prepares to present her spring statement on Wednesday 26 March - an event which is already shaping up to be an emergency Budget.
