Rachel Reeves has defended her decisions in the upcoming spending review, as she argued a squeeze on funding is a "product of economic reality".In a speech in Manchester, the chancellor said "not every department will get everything that they want next week",

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced the cash injection to boost public transport in the North and Midlands nearly two weeks after South Western Railway became the first train operator to be nationalised.

The package for mayoral authorities is expected to include funding to extend the metros in Tyne and Wear, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands.

GB News presenters Ellie Costello and Ben Leo were joined by commentator Charlie Rowley during Thursday's edition of the breakfast show. Millions more pensioners will get winter fuel payments this year,

More details of Chancellor Rachel Reeves's spending squeeze next week are trickling out - including a U-turn on the winter fuel allowance, which we now know is happening in the spending review.

British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday more pensioners will receive winter fuel payments this winter, following the government's U-turn on the widely criticised cuts in the payments to the elderly.