Latest updates ahead of the 2024 autumn budget as chancellor Rachel Reeves prepares to reveal Labour’s plan to raise billions in new taxes with the NHS in line for a huge cash injection

Wes Streeting has toured the broadcasting studios this morning to get the Government interested in talking about additional funding in tomorrow’s budget.

The Health Secretary spoke to LBC, Times Radio, Sky News and GB News this morning, so let’s take a look at some of the lines that emerged from his interviews:

• Streeting said the NHS is “not just on its knees, it is upside down”, and warned that a single budget would not be enough to improve the health service despite the Chancellor setting a priority.
• The extra money coming into the budget will allow the health service to double the number of scanners and start cutting NHS waiting lists in line with Labor manifesto promises, he said.
• The Health Secretary said it is necessary to reveal parts of the Budget in advance to avoid shocking markets after Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle complained it was “unacceptable” to make policy announcements without first informing to parliamentarians.
• Asked to define “working people”, Streeting insisted he is a working person, but that the Chancellor has people on “low and middle incomes” in mind ahead of the Budget.
• He added that private schools have the means to mitigate the risk of children with special educational needs being excluded by tax increases.

Before we begin, let’s take a look at the front page of today’s Daily Mail, where Wes Streeting admits that more money for the NHS won’t solve its problems immediately.

Health editor Shaun Wooller reports that Streeting warned that the additional funding is unlikely to lead to major improvements and will not prevent patients from dying while waiting for medical care this winter.

Hello and welcome to MailOnline’s live pre-Budget coverage.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to raise taxes by a staggering £35 billion in tomorrow’s Budget, despite claiming on the campaign trail that Labor’s plans were “fully funded” by modest tax proposals totaling less than £8 billion.

Ms Reeves has outlined additional funding for the NHS to carry out an extra 40,000 hospital appointments each week.

But Health Secretary Wes Streeting warns the cash injection will not be enough to revive the NHS, which he today described as “on the face of it”.

We’ll bring you the latest updates from our reporters in Westminster and our This Is Money team ahead of tomorrow’s Budget, when the Labor Party will deliver its first financial statement in 14 years.

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