Darling admits public spending cuts will eclipse Thatcher's

Alistair Darling

Cuts to public spending are at the centre of the pre-election political battle, after chancellor Alistair Darling appeared to accept that they would be deeper and tougher in a fourth-term Labour administration than in the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher.

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