But Is Alistair Really Getting Tough? ; Analysis [Scot Region]
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TO LISTEN to Alistair Darling - and many commentators - yesterday's Budget was the most ruthless in living memory, 'tougher than Mrs Thatcher was in the early 1980s' according to a breathless Evan Davis on the BBC's Today programme.
The Chancellor, keen to appear to be taking difficult decisions, fell over himself to agree with Evan that 'the spending round will be tough', and went on to boast about his Pounds 15billion of planned efficiency savings..See the full content of this document
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But Is Alistair Really Getting Tough? ; Analysis [Scot Region]
'We've got to take action, we just can't go on as if nothing had happened,' he declaimed heroically.
Even the Tories, for political reasons, are acquiescing in this fiction...See the full content of this document
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