
Labour dodges scrutiny on efficiency savings
Well, well, well. Rachel Reeves has spent much of her seven months in power banging on about budget blackholes and spending cuts, vowing to use the Treasury’s ongoing spending review to find more ways to cut costs. The Chancellor has asked government departments to find 5 per cent ‘efficiency savings’ to help set their budgets over the next few years. But when it comes to the specifics, the Labour lot have been rather, um, light on the detail. Conservative MPs John Glen and Mike Wood submitted written questions to the government, quizzing Sir Keir Starmer’s army about exactly what non-essential spending cuts had been made by departments, with Wood requesting
