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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Archie Mitchell

Rachel Reeves to turn on spending taps with Budget boost for infrastructure and clean energy

Rachel Reeves will turn on the spending taps to upgrade Britain’s creaking infrastructure and invest in the clean energy transition, she will tell world leaders today.

The chancellor is planning to change the government’s fiscal rules to free up billions of pounds of borrowing, which she will promise to spend laying “the foundations of future growth”.

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