Wednesday briefing: ​What to expect in today’s spending review, from housing help to nuclear power

In today’s newsletter: Rachel Reeves is set to unveil the UK’s spending review, balancing major investments with tight budgets and tough fiscal decisions.

Labour’s spending review: five charts underpinning Rachel Reeves’s decisions

What the chancellor has considered when setting out investment to improve services and security through to the next election

Rachel Reeves’s economic vision is coming into focus – a year too late

In an age of political mistrust, voters won’t patiently wait for the benefits of a long-term investment plan, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Reeves will hope weaker wage growth enables more interest rate cuts

Bank of England governor has said he sees pay as crucial in determining pace of rate reductions

Sizewell C power station to be built as part of UK’s £14bn nuclear investment

Ed Miliband promises to ‘get Britain off the fossil fuel rollercoaster’ with new plant expected to create 10,000 jobs

Sadiq Khan said to be furious over lack of spending review cash for London

City hall source says it would be unacceptable if there were no major infrastructure projects for capital

Rachel Reeves in standoff over policing and council budgets days before spending review

Chancellor still at negotiating table on Sunday as Home Office demands more cash

The winners and losers in Labour’s first spending review

Rachel Reeves will promise a £113bn capital boost for infrastructure – but there will be day-to-day spending cuts too

Farage is like a tribune for the working class, says former Bank of England economist

Exclusive: Andy Haldane says Labour ‘sloganeering’ will not empower regions where Reform is making headway

Spending review is a chance for Reeves to paint a more positive picture

Labour has so far struggled to explain its purpose and the need to do so will be all the more pressing if it raises taxes again

NHS to get £30bn boost over three years at expense of other services

Policing and local councils among areas facing real-terms cuts in the spending review on Wednesday

Liz Truss hits back at Tory shadow chancellor for mini-budget disavowal

Former PM accuses Mel Stride of being ‘creature of system’ after his formal repudiation of 2022 unfunded tax cuts

Housing bosses press Rachel Reeves to unlock more funds for affordable homes

Housing associations want chancellor to class social housing as critical infrastructure to allow for extra spending

Tories will never again put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride says

Shadow chancellor accepts Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PM

The Guardian view on Labour’s investment plans: sugaring the bitter pill of austerity

Editorial: The chancellor is right to be planning for the long term, but voters won’t be patient if change isn’t felt soon