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the Chancellor's spring statement won't
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alter the basics of the government's
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public spending plans sir kiss Dharma
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has said the Prime Minister insisted
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there were no plans to undo the record
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Investments made to public services at
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the Autumn budget but that ministers
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were looking at how to run the
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government more efficiently it comes
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ahead of Rachel Reeves taking to the
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despatch Box on Wednesday to unveil her
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spring statement when she is expected to
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announce spending cuts in some
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government departments amid
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pre-announced reductions to the welfare
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Bill and Civil Service running costs a
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new ugab survey has also found 80 % of
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Brits believe the public finances are in
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a poor State including 34% who say they
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are in a very bad place and just 3%
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believing the government is in a good
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State financially asked by BBC Radio 5
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live about cuts to unprotected
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departments such as the ministry of
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Justice the Prime Minister said his
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government was looking across the board
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at spending he insisted at the budget
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last year we made some record
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Investments and we're not going to undo
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that the Prime Minister vowed that the
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government is not going to alter the
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basics but we are going to look across
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and one of the areas that we will be
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looking at is can we run the government
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more efficiently he added that he thinks
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the government is essentially asking
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businesses across the country to be more
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efficient to look at Ai and Tech in the
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way that they do their business the
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Prime Minister initially set out plans
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to prune the size of the Civil Service
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when he set out his public sector reform
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proposals in early March he said AI
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could be used for organizing NHS waiting
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lists and identifying people likely to
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miss appointments calling it
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transformative and saying it would make
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a huge difference Shadow Chancellor m
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stride has warned ahead of the fiscal
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event that Reeves needs to take
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responsibility for her own choices
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adding economic stagnation and higher
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government borrowing cannot be blamed on
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external factors it was clear we were on
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this path ever since her first
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disastrous budget stride added that
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labor promised stability and said there
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would only be one fiscal event a year
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yet another promise they are about to
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break the chancellor is rapidly losing
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credibility he added while conservative
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party leader KY Bok said Reeves would
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have been sacked in any other industry
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but because of her performance as
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Chancellor but she claimed any
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replacement on the labor benches would
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be much worse asked if Reeves should
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lose her job because of the state of the
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economy the Tory leader told talk TV she
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thinks that in any other field Rachel
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Reeves would have what do you think of
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Labour's plans for the spring statement
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