Reeves rejects claim of £4.7bn black hole for Burnham
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Rachel Reeves has dismissed claims that she has left a £4.7 billion black hole for Andy Burnham to sort out. [Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe] The chancellor says it’s normal to find those sorts of sums from her overall budget of hundreds of billions. The Makerfield MP will have to find an extra £4.7 billion for defence, after the prime minister announced a £15 billion spending increase, almost a third of which is not yet funded. ------- Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4.com/news/ Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/subscribe Follow us: TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@c4news Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/channel4news/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Channel4News Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/
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