Cameron previews 'socially responsible' Spending Review

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Prime Minister David Cameron has outlined the extent of the cuts to be revealed in the Government's October Spending Review.

In an article for the Sunday Times, Cameron begins with a reassurance that better schools and improved infrastructure will remain a priority. However, he goes on to outline an economic plan full of cuts, waste-reduction and privatization, claiming: "I don't like that any more than anyone else." Cameron says "no sum of waste is too small to escape the microscope of efficiency," and the Government is "having a root and branch audit of recent public spending so that we can learn the lessons of the past...

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