Chancellor: Labour cuts would be tougher than Thatcher’s
Nick Robinson | 16:55 UK time, Thursday, 25 March 2010
The chancellor has conceded in an interview with me that if Labour is re-elected, public spending cuts will be tougher and deeper than those implemented by Margaret Thatcher.
Robinson: “The Treasury’s own figures suggest deeper, tougher than Thatcher’s – do you accept that?”
Darling: “They will be deeper and tougher – where we make the precise comparison I think is secondary to an acknowledgement that these reductions will be tough.”
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