What about the Home Office?

The less we hear from Theresa May, the more I worry about the Home Office budget. I’m hearing rumours of her taking a 30 percent cut, which I first dismissed as a piece of expectations management. But now I’m beginning to wonder. We know that defence is settled – about an 8 percent real-terms cut. The NHS, which absorbs a quarter of government spending, will have real-terms increases (something even the left-leaning IPPR doesn’t back). The schools budget has escaped relatively unscathed, we read. So what’s left? Again, there’s so much deliberate misinformation out there that I hesitate to give a rumour round-up. But here goes.
 
One major victim is expected to be Transport. We’re being braced for a 40 percent rises in train fares – just in case the commuter on £44k with three kids to support wasn’t feeling enough pain yet. Word is Ken Clarke is looking at -25 percent for Justice/prisons (on top of the 4 percent fall over the last five years of Labour).