Badenoch says Healey’s budget will be worse than Reeves’s if he doesn’t slash spending – UK politics live
Conservative leader to give a speech later, while Treasury sources say Healey has ruled out a rise in capital gains tax Angela Rayner , the housing secretary, was the government voice in the broadcasting studios this morning. Asked on the Today programme if she favoured the plans the Alan Milburn youth unemployment review is expected to recommend, cutting some benefits for young people in return for more focus on employment support, Rayner replied: What we’re not doing is arbitrary cuts. I am c…

