Rachel Reeves has promised the UK’s economy and living standards will improve, as she pledged to cut running costs of government by 15% and civil service jobs by 10,000. Ahead of Wednesday’s spring statement, Reeves defended her stewardship of the economy since the election, saying she had made difficult choices. She said she was “not satisfied with the numbers that we see at the moment”, telling Sky News: “It’s not possible within just a few months to reverse more than a decade of economic stagnation, but we are making the changes necessary to get Britain building again, to bring money