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SECRET “back door” public-sector cuts would result in fewer doctors, nurses, police officers, teachers and military personnel, Lib Dem leader Tim Farron said yesterday.
Tory Chancellor George Osborne’s changes to funding of public-sector pensions set out in his Budget on
Wednesday are a “vicious attack” on essential front-line services, said Mr Farron.
The change should lop £2 billion off Treasury spending but threadbare departments will have to find the cash.
Since 2010, one in five firefighter jobs has disappeared alongside 30% funding cuts — all while climate breakdown brings record blazes and flooding. It’s time to fund our fire service properly, writes FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT
In the second part of a two-part article, CONOR BOLLINS asks why the government’s ambition when it comes to the military is not applied to sectors where it could do real good
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP