'Surplus' sites owned by the NHS , Ministry of Defence and Network Rail are all being considered for sale by Ms Reeves, it is understood, who accuse Tories of a 'cover up' in her keynote speech tomorrow.
The Chancellor will use a keynote statement in Parliament to argue that the sell-off is needed to help fill the £20billion ‘black hole’ in the public finances she claims the Tories have left.
The Chancellor will also announce a fresh crackdown on the non-essential use of external consultants as part of a wider drive to cut down on waste in the public sector. Ms Reeves will also be urged to consider clobbering more than 30million drivers by Treasury officials to help plug the gap. Under a range of scenarios to be presented to her by Treasury officials, Ms Reeves will also be asked to consider whether fuel duty should rise in line with inflation for future years.
Ms Reeves is expected to say today: ‘Before the election, I said we would face the worst inheritance since the Second World War.Read More £1.7bn tunnel under Stonehenge and new hospitals set to be axed by Chancellor in bid to plug £20bn 'black hole left by Tories' ‘I knew all those things. I was honest about them during the election campaign. And the difficult choices it meant.
‘She wants to pretend that the OBR, established by the Conservatives and whose forecasting was used in all of the last Conservative Governments budgets, doesn’t exist in order to make any of what she says believable and just like her books, this announcement is a copy and paste of what has come decades before.
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