Senior UK ministers have written to Prime Minister Keir Starmer expressing their alarm at the scale of spending cuts that their departments face in the country’s Oct. 30 budget, people familiar with the matter said.

But there are fears that steep spending cuts will also be needed to meet what Whitehall sources have suggested is a £40bn funding gap. In what some say is an unusual move, ministers from hard-pressed departments are calling for a last minute rethink of the Budget,

The Deputy Prime Minister is one of multiple senior members of the Labour Government who are worried about plans to cut spending.

A group of senior government ministers - including Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner - have written formal letters to the Prime Minister raising serious concerns about cuts