Is chancellor's spending review the start of a 'national renewal' - or too good to be true?

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Is chancellor's spending review the start of a 'national renewal' - or too good to be true?

If you sat through the entire spending review speech delivered by Rachel Reeves in the House of Commons, you might have been lulled into a sense that the UK was awash with a wealth of riches as the chancellor sprinkled billions across the land.

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