Chancellor Rishi Sunak will unveil the government's spending plans for the coming year later.

The Spending Review will include details on public sector pay, NHS funding and money for the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Mr Sunak will also set out the extent of the damage done to the UK economy by the coronavirus pandemic.

The government's Covid response has led to huge spending and borrowing rises.

These include an extra £3bn for the NHS in England to help tackle the backlog of operations delayed due to Covid, an increase in defence spending and a £4.6bn package to help the unemployed back to work.

The government will certainly have to borrow enormous amounts of money because it is spending more than it is taking in from tax.

Back in July, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which keeps tabs on government spending, estimated that borrowing would be £372bn for the current financial year (April 2020 to April 2021).

So when the OBR publishes its next set of economic forecasts on Wednesday, they are likely to show that the UK will have to borrow even more than £372bn.

To put that into context: before the crisis, the government was expecting to borrow about £55bn for the whole financial year.

Something else for you to get upset about

And that's before a single official word has been said!

Financially we are in a right mess. I've given up worrying about it. Just assume there will be hard times ahead.

Financially we are in a right mess. I've given up worrying about it. Just assume there will be hard times ahead.

They have also announced a cut in Foreign Aid which is great news, just didn't go far enough. Obviously Tony square pants Bliar is upset about it.

Jeremy Hunt was on the news the other night lamenting the reduced spending on foreign aid to poor countries