While the chancellor feels the Conservatives have tied her hands over the public finances, she has already made a clear choice that makes her task more difficult.
Rachel Reeves said she wouldn't dodge difficult choices as chancellor and, in her first major intervention, she was as good as her word. She announced spending cuts that will make some of her own MPs wince after revealing funding shortfalls that startled economists.
Read more: Reeves reveals date for Labour's first budgetChancellor's key funding gap accusations and what she plans to do Under current rules, Treasury officials cannot inform the opposition of spending pressures, and the Office for Budget Responsibility is concerned enough about what it was told by the previous government to launch a review into the process around the last budget.
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