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Public Spending UK

How the debate on public debt and public spending in British politics is becoming increasingly ill-tempered.

In Britain, the political temperature is rising as the general election is now less than a year away. And the political and economic landscape has changed dramatically since the last election, with public debt and spending plans at the heart of an increasingly bad-tempered debate, as our political correspondent, Nick Childs, reports.

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Thu 16 Jul 2009 04:40GMT

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