According to what we read, the last holdout in the current set of negotiations with the Treasury about public spending plans is the Home Office, where the secretary of state, Yvette Cooper, hasn’t yet agreed her plans for the next three years with the chancellor, Rachel Reeves.
Apparently, there’s more cash for the police, although maybe not as much as they’d like (it never is, of course), but certainly not for much else. Given that Cooper is responsible for one of the most politically important jobs in government, getting migration down to levels acceptable to the right-wing media, she’s right to be putting up a bit of a fight.
