How Rachel Reeves might fill £30bn budget black hole

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The chancellor has been talking astir "necessary choices" astir adjacent month's fund successful an nonfiction for The Guardian. Rachel Reeves says she needs to beryllium "candid" and doesn't privation to "simply accept" forecasts - but to "defy them".

With 4 weeks to go, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy ponder what she mightiness beryllium up to - and however she mightiness capable a achromatic spread coming successful supra £30bn. Will Labour manifesto pledges beryllium breached?

Elsewhere, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer chooses a Labour seasoned to pb the party's predetermination campaigns adjacent year. Lord Spencer Livermore volition instrumentality connected the task.