Rachel Reeves reeled off a dizzying list of wildly varying numbers and time horizons, covering programme after programme funded in Britain’s spending review. Over the next five years, £14bn ($19bn) would go to a new nuclear plant.

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rachel Reeves will divide up more than 2 trillion pounds ($2.7 trillion) of public spending on Wednesday in a speech she hopes will foster a sense of national renewal and make clear the year-old Labour government's political priorities.

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves vowed to renew Britain’s infrastructure and public services as she outlined three years of spending plans to build roads, railways, houses and energy projects nationwide.

Some departments, including the Home Office and Foreign Office, have lost out in the government's Spending Review.