Chancellor claimed he would provide 'real terms protection' as forces face £160m funding cut, 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 last November. The chancellor's declaration that "now is not the time for further police cuts. 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 ...
Chancellor claimed he would provide 'real terms protection' as forces face £160m funding cut, 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 last November. The chancellor's declaration that "now is not the time for further police cuts. 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 ...
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