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George Osborne should abandon his promise to protect the NHS, overseas aid and benefits for pensioners in order to tackle Britain?s ?ballooning national debt?, a coalition of leading think-tanks says.
Six centre-Right policy institutes say it is ?not sensible? to define some public services as ?sacrosanct?, as two think-tanks favoured by Labour criticise the ring-fencing of funds for schools, health and international development.
The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies also warned that other public services would suffer more ?pain? as a result of the ?sub-optimal? approach to reviewing government budgets.
Mr Osborne will announce details of spending plans for 2015-16, the final financial year of the Coalition, in a statement in June. He has warned that fresh cuts are inevitable.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...Cut-aid-and-NHS-cash-George-Osborne-told.html
Six centre-Right policy institutes say it is ?not sensible? to define some public services as ?sacrosanct?, as two think-tanks favoured by Labour criticise the ring-fencing of funds for schools, health and international development.
The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies also warned that other public services would suffer more ?pain? as a result of the ?sub-optimal? approach to reviewing government budgets.
Mr Osborne will announce details of spending plans for 2015-16, the final financial year of the Coalition, in a statement in June. He has warned that fresh cuts are inevitable.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pol...Cut-aid-and-NHS-cash-George-Osborne-told.html