Chancellor claimed he would provide ‘real-terms protection but forces face £160m funding slit,statistics watchdog rules George Osborne, has been rebuked by the statistics watchdog for wrongly claiming there would be “no cuts at all in police budgets” in his autumn statement final November.
The chancellor’s declaration that “now is not the time for further police cuts, and now is the time to back our police” was widely regarded as his major “rabbit out of a hat” surprise at a time when cuts of up to 20% had been expected.
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Source: theguardian.com