This will be accomplished with a further # 30 billion of spending cuts with the aim of generating a balanced budget by 2017 - 2018 and a surplus in 2018 - 2019. (theconversation.com)
Conservative ministers, MPs and most newspapers support public spending cuts in general, but oppose nearly all attempts to cut public spending. (totalpolitics.com)
He had the determination to push through undoubtedly necessary public spending cuts in the face of opposition from within his own party (and, indeed, our own). (conservativehome.blogs.com)