Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves in stand-off over Labour’s spending plans
Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves are at loggerheads over the crucial spending review as the deputy prime minister’s department passed an unofficial deadline to settle its budget until the next general election without securing an agreement.
With the spending review set to be unveiled on 11 June, departments have told The Independent that the Treasury wanted its plans agreed by the start of this weekend.
But The Independent understands that Ms Rayner’s Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is one of several departments yet to settle with Ms Reeves and her deputy Darren Jones.
A duel is the only honourable way to settle it, or a joust. Or maybe they could go down-market with a pie-eating contest. There are many suitable possibilities, but a rational debate is off the table.
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It could either be a deliberate challenge, with a PM in waiting claiming that her variety of true socialism cannot be delivered within Sir Seveir's budgetary constraints. Or it just could be incompetence.
Or, sadly, it could be The Independent making stuff up.
Sam - yes it could be The Independent making stuff up. Maybe it's based on a known antipathy between the two and that's enough.
Or......It could all be a diversion to reflect our attention from Surkier's wee Ukrainian problems.
There have been no rumours of Rachel FA dalliance with Surkier. Is she peeved?
The duel sounds the most humane way.
Doonhamer - it could be a diversion as Surkier certainly does have a problem with the wee Ukrainian.
James - and it would establish a precedent for future disputes.
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