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Treasury hints Labour will spend billions on infrastructure

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New "guardrails" will allow government to borrow for investment "more efficiently going forward", the Treasury Chief Secretary Darren Jones said.

The admission is the clearest sign yet ahead of the Budget that the government is willing to relax fiscal rules on public spending.

Decision comes as the government faces a backlash from ministers for spending cuts elsewhere.

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