Rachel Reeves pledges to return some fuel payments in the winter this year

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Rachel Reeves promised that the government would return the winter fuel payments to some retirees this year, leading to a faster tolerance than expected.

The chancellor confirmed plans to drop her original plan to remove 1.5 billion pounds from benefits to 10 million retired. “We will make changes to this,” she said on Wednesday. “They will be in their place until retirees will be paid in the next winter.”

Reeves also pledged to adhere to the Labor Party’s promise before the elections not to raise income tax rates, value -added tax, or national insurance for the employee, despite the increasing speculation that it will have to raise taxes because it is on its way to the path to it. Break their borrowing rules.

Speaking before reviewing spending next week, Refiz She defended her “non -negotiable” financial rules, and admitted that she requires difficult options, but they insisted that she was flexible enough to allow extra capital spending at a value of 113 billion pounds.

When asked if she was ready to break the statement of the statement in the party not to raise the “three major” taxes that the working people pay, she said: “These are promises that we will stand on. We will implement what was in our statement.”

However, Reeves did not respond to a question about whether she would commit to her plan to end the freezing of personal income tax suits and its thresholds – which were presented by the last conservative government – from 2028.

The chancellor, who has developed plans for 15.6 billion pounds of spending on regional transport plans in the city’s regions, said that she wanted to give mayors the ability to generate growth throughout the country.

I used a letter at Rochdale on Wednesday to try to turn attention from discounts to daily spending Fierce cabinet tensions Towards a significant increase in capital investment, including transportation, energy, housing and railways.

Reeves admitted that “you will not get every section that will get everything they want next week” because it paved the way for a difficult spending on June 11. “There are good things I had to say,” No, “she said.

Evit Cooper, Minister of Interior, is fighting for more police spending, while Angela Rainer, Prime Minister, is trying to win more money from the locker to the local government. Ed Miliband, Minister of Energy, is trying to defend green energy plans.

However, Reeves insisted that adhering to its financial rules on current spending created stability and market confidence to allow it to borrow in order to invest in capital, with spending of 113 billion pounds more than those that the conservatives plan in this parliament.

“It is not a matter of pride for me that we are committed to our financial rules.” “It comes to the protection of workers.”

Many economists believe that Reeves will have to raise taxes in the autumn budget due to high borrowing costs, slow growth and government declines on planned social welfare savings.

Reeves is trying to transform the political narration away from the idea-the leader between the left-wing representatives-as it heads the “austerity” policies.

Speaking at a bus factory in Rocdale, Reeves also said that she had already started training more than 190 billion pounds of additional daily spending on Parliament, compared to the plans of conservatives, an increase that she said was largely funded by raising taxes of 40 billion pounds in the autumn budget last year.

Reeves revealed a preliminary set of capital projects to be confirmed in the spending review, which focuses on cities transport outside London.

She said that rewriting the “Green Book” – the tool used by officials to measure value for money for public projects – will ensure that more investment has gone to areas less traditional productive, including north and Midlands.

On the pretext that chronic low transport investments have led to regional cities such as Birmingham, Newcastle and Liverpool, their European peers left, saying that the British economy “cannot depend on a handful of places that advance before the rest.”

She said about an investment of 15.6 billion pounds for tram tram, bus infrastructure and local railways that were confirmed next week: “We will make the largest investment by a British government in transportation ties in the city’s areas and the surrounding towns.”

Former Prime Minister Rishi Sonak promised billion pounds of additional transportation expenses to regional transport after the northern station of HS2 was canceled in 2023.

Reeves said that the investment was not already funded, and it will become a reality only as a result of a review of the Labor Party spending.

Separately on Wednesday, the Minister of Pension Torsin Bell ruled out the possibility that the government would make fuel payments in the winter globally again. He said to treat deputies in the work and pensions committee that the government is looking to “make more retirees qualified”, but without further details.

The pioneering figures in the Labor Party blamed the issue of losing the party’s votes in the local elections last month. Bell said that the issue was raised at the campaigns, but he said that this step was common among some people: “95 percent of people agree that it is not good to have a system that pays a few hundred pounds to millionaires.”

He emphasized that there was no evidence that taking payments had caused an overburden death, saying that there was “less death than usual.”