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| Subject: Ancap Good News: Labour plans to halve Britain’s deficit with spending cuts and asset sales worth £75 billion Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:37 am | |
| Senior ministers are demanding that the pay of judges, top civil servants and NHS managers be frozen within weeks as the cuts package begins to bite. The remaining five million public sector workers can expect only minimal rises, union leaders have been warned privately. They had told the Prime Minister that protecting existing jobs was their chief priority.
Gordon Brown is looking at “a very big list” of defence procurement orders. He plans to shelve or scrap capital projects to pay for new equipment for troops in Afghanistan, seen as an overwhelming political priority.
Rows are raging within Government over the scale and timing of the cuts.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6856194.ece |
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