With a trace of irony given the government's spending cuts programme, government and other services showed the strongest expansion, with output rising 0.4 %. (politics.co.uk)
If you are the person whose job it is to see through a necessary but pretty horrendous cuts programme, you will rub some people up the wrong way. (totalpolitics.com)
The extent of the discomfort with the government's economic plans was laid bare even further when a group of Liberal Democrat councillors wrote a letter criticising the spending cuts programme in the strongest possible terms. (politics.co.uk)