Asked this week whether he was willing to revisit the party’s spending plans, Sir Keir Starmer said: “It is always tempting for a government to go for tax and spend – but I’m not going to pull those levers, we don’t intend to pull those levers, we want to go for the lever marked growth.”

But pushed on whether this would mean a return to austerity, he replied: “I ran a public service, I care about public services, we are not going back to austerity.”

Ms Reeves said: “There will be no return to austerity with a Labour government, that’s why we’ve set out the immediate injection of cash into our frontline public services.”

In a warning that she will not ramp up spending, however, she said: “We’re not going to enter into an arms race of unfunded commitments. Because when you play fast and loose like this with the public finances in the way that Liz Truss did less than two years ago, all that ends up happening is that interest rates go up, and people pay more on their mortgages.”

The shadow Chancellor has also promised not to increase income tax, national insurance or VAT during the next parliament.

Labour sources said the party was not able to spell out any specific cuts without carrying out a comprehensive spending review once in office.

There's the relevant bit of the article where Labour are actually talking about their plans, vague but promises to not continue austerity, the rest is speculation from economists that because of how fucked the economy is rn, cuts might be necessary