Fight to death over spending

Jul 4 2009 by Tomos Livingstone, Western Mail The bitter row over public spending tells us everything we need to know about the next general election, says Political Editor Tomos Livingstone NEVER has an argument over Departmental Expenditure Limits been so public, so vicious and so revealing. The normally dry details of exactly how much Government will spend on schools, hospitals, roads, defence, benefits and the rest in 2012 or 2014 has become the defining political question of the day. It ties together the personalities of the two men vying to win the next election, Gordon Brown and David Cameron, and demonstrates that the tax-spend political pendulum, which swings once every 15 years or so, is on the move again. After weeks of the expenses scandal, perhaps the gusto with which the main parties have thrown themselves into... [read full story]                    

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