Iron Grip

Cabinet rebellion over Rachel Reeves’s cut to foreign aid budget

Rachel Reeves’s plan to cut almost £2 billion from the foreign aid budget has sparked a Cabinet backlash, The Telegraph can reveal...

‘Iron grip’ on spending

Multiple government insiders have told The Telegraph that ministerial tensions on spending cuts demanded by Ms Reeves are much bigger than the supposed No 10 rifts making headlines.

“She is holding an iron grip on spending”, said one Whitehall source.

An interesting choice of words, as if  there an intention to promote Rachel Reeves as some kind of Iron Chancellor to offset the winter fuel allowance debacle. Yet it is hardly likely that Ms Reeves would have joined the Labour party without an ideological predilection for hosing money around.

Ed Miliband and the Net Zero fantasy for example. Ms Reeves is unlikely to have an iron grip on Ed and his all electric dreamworld.