Good morning and welcome to the Politics Hub this Thursday, 12 June.
In Westminster, the story very much remains the chancellor's spending review this morning. We heard an awful lot about it yesterday and received quite a bit of reaction - but there's plenty more of that still to come.
Rachel Reeves is on a visit to a hospital this morning, where she will be talking up her big injection of 拢29bn in the NHS, and what it means for patients.
The chancellor will be joined by Health Secretary Wes Streeting on the visit, where they will announce that the extra money will lead to up to 4m additional NHS tests and procedures over the next five years, as well as new scanners, more ambulances and urgent treatment centres to support emergency care teams.
If that all sounds a little too rosy for Reeves, then don't worry - because the ONS is set to release its GDP estimate for April, and economists are predicting it will show a 0.1% contraction following growth of 0.2% in March. Expect the chancellor to blame global economic turbulence.
Elsewhere, both the IFS and think tank the Resolution Foundation will reveal their full and considered responses to the spending review this morning.
But it's not just the chancellor in action. Streeting will be speaking during the hospital visit at around 9am, before popping up again at the NHS ConfedExpo 2025 in Manchester around lunchtime.
Also keeping busy today is the foreign secretary, who is attending the Lord Mayor鈥檚 Summer Banquet this evening, where he will make a speech.
Meanwhile, the defence secretary is formally opening BAE Systems' new 拢25m artillery production facility in Sheffield and the prisons minister Lord Timpson is addressing members at a conference on the justice system in London.
And in opposition corner, Kemi Badenoch is speaking to the Peel Hunt FTSE250+ conference mid-morning, and will no doubt be sharing her criticisms of the spending review.
Coming up on Sky News this morning:
- Daisy Cooper, the Liberal Democrat deputy leader and Treasury spokesperson;
- Rachel Reeves, the chancellor.
We'll bring you all the updates in the world of politics as they happen, right here on the Politics Hub.