Further austerity measures agreed at the cabinet meeting include new consumer tax increases and fresh public sector spending cuts. (dw.com)
Conservatives will accuse them at the next general election of having refused to back cuts in the number of politicians while supporting the coalition's broad range of public sector spending cuts. (politics.co.uk)
«If we do not implement these changes it will be impossible to rally people behind public sector spending cuts and any serious attempt to cut the deficit will fail.» (politics.co.uk)