内容摘要："There's no real desire in many governments to actually limit Russia's ability to produce and sell oil. There is way too much fear about what that would mean for global energy markets. There's a line drawn under where energy markets would be too undermined or too thrown off kilter," she told the BBC.

"There's no real desire in many governments to actually limit Russia's ability to produce and sell oil. There is way too much fear about what that would mean for global energy markets. There's a line drawn under where energy markets would be too undermined or too thrown off kilter," she told the BBC.

In 1971, a six-episode television adaptation of the novel was the first colour drama made by BBC Scotland and was greeted with huge acclaim.It was credited with reigniting interest in Grassic Gibbon, and Sunset Song was put on the Higher English syllabus.

In 2016, it was voted Scotland's favourite book in a BBC poll, ahead of the Wasp Factory by Iain Banks and Lanark by Alasdair Gray.In an introduction to the novel, published in 2020, the then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon wrote of her love for the book, which she said is her favourite novel.Alan Riach, professor of Scottish literature at the University of Glasgow, told the BBC he was "appalled" at news of the imminent closure of Arbuthnott Church.

"This is one of the great places of pilgrimage in literary Scotland," he said."It's not only fixed forever in our cultural history as an essential co-ordinate point in the biography of one of our greatest writers, but it's also a key reference point in his greatest novel."

Scott Lyall, an associate professor of Modern and Scottish Literature at Edinburgh Napier University, described the church as a site of "genuine importance to Scotland's literary heritage".

Prof Lyall said: "The minister at the end of Sunset Song, in tribute to the local fallen war dead of World War One, indicates that we must remember the past and the dead to better understand our present condition and build a better future.The government's independent budget watchdog, the OBR, said meeting the ambition to spend 3% of GDP on defence "would cost an additional £17.3 billion in 2029-30".

, Healey said there was "no doubt" the UK would meet its target."It allows us to plan for the long term. It allows us to deal with the pressures," he said.

The review comes as other government departments are still negotiating how much they will have to spend over the next three years.The BBC understands the Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, has not yet reached an agreement with the Treasury over how much she will have allocated for areas such as building social and affordable homes, and for local councils.