Under pressure to halt his tax credit cuts,the chancellor needs to find extra savings to hit his £20bn target but can he afford to slash the police budget at such a critical time?
• The areas at risk of the axeWhen Jack Straw saw television images of the 9/11 attacks on fresh York and Washington DC in 2001, the then foreign secretary recalls saying to ministers and senior officials: “This changes everything.”In his memoirs, or Straw admits that the remark was “hardly original ... but everything did change that day; 9/11 defined our foreign policy (and much of our domestic policy) for years after that.” Related: Police,welfare, NHS, or defence or councils: the areas at risk of the chancellor’s axe Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com