Angela Rayner on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
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ANGELA Rayner and Rachel Reeves are locked in a row over this week’s spending review — which fellow ministers have dubbed, “The War of the Roses”.

The Deputy PM was last night still refusing to sign up to her housing department’s budget.

Angela Rayner on BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is still refusing to sign up to the housing department’s budget
Chancellor Rachel Reeves arriving at HMS Sutherland following the UK-EU summit.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves now has little time to get her numbers to add up

Ms Rayner has been demanding billions more for home building.

Discussions are pushing deadlines, leaving Chancellor Ms. Reeves pressed for time to ensure her calculations are accurate before submitting her spending plans to Parliament on Wednesday.

Should Ms. Rayner—often referred to as “Red Rayner” due to her left-leaning perspectives—decline to consent to the budget, No. 11 may be forced to enact the rare measure of enforcing it upon her.

One senior minister told The Sun on Sunday: “Things are tense. The two most powerful women in ­Cabinet can’t agree.

“It’s like War of the Roses. Angela represents a Lancashire seat and Rachel’s is in Yorkshire.”

The War of the Roses was a series of battles for the throne waged between the House of York and House of Lancaster.

The Yorkist symbol was a white rose and Lancaster’s was a red rose.

The Labour Party’s emblem is also famously a red rose.

A senior government insider said: “Angela is definitely not happy. She could blow up at any moment.”

Another said: “Angie used to work for a trade union and has taken those hardline negotiation tactics with her into the Treasury talks.”

Angela Rayner says lifting 2-child benefit cap not ‘silver bullet’ for ending poverty after demanding cuts for millions

The Government has vowed to build 1.5 million new homes in England by 2029, but Ms Rayner fears she will miss the target without more cash.

Nailbiting negotiations between the pair were still ongoing last night.

Many departments face having to make deep cuts because of a tight spending squeeze.

But Ms Reeves will tell MPs on Wednesday she is spending shedloads of cash on infrastructure investment to turbocharge the economy.

This will include £86 billion on Britain’s fastest growing sectors, including tech, sciences and defence.

Writing in today’s Sun on Sunday, Cabinet minister Peter Kyle said “tough decisions” have been made to knock the economy into shape.

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