Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner smiling and holding hands.
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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.

Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner smiling and holding hands.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Deputy Prime Minister Angela RaynerCredit: Getty
Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves at the launch of the Labour Party's 2024 general election manifesto.
Angela Rayner and Rachel ReevesCredit: AP
Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves visiting a housing development site.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner and Chancellor Rachel ReevesCredit: Getty

Ms Rayner has been demanding billions more for home building.

Negotiations are extending until the last moment, providing Chancellor Ms. Reeves with minimal time to finalize her calculations before unveiling her expenditure plans to Parliament on Wednesday.

Should Ms. Rayner — often called “Red Rayner” due to her left-leaning perspectives — decline to consent to the budget, No11 may be compelled to undertake the highly uncommon 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.”

Rachel Reeves at the EU-UK Summit.
Chancellor Rachel ReevesCredit: Getty
Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader, speaking at a campaign launch.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela RaynerCredit: PA

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.

Labour Party logo: "Labour" with a rose.
Labour Party emblemCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd

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.”

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.

Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves wearing hard hats at a housing development.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Angela RaynerCredit: PA
Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer, and Angela Rayner at Prime Minister's Questions.
Rachel Reeves, Sir Keir Starmer and Angela RaynerCredit: PA

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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