Making cuts of the scale needed in any of the other big spending departments will be equally difficult. (totalpolitics.com)
Translated: «In the next few weeks, various secretaries of state of spending departments will set out the really unpopular detailed consequences of the figures I announced in my Budget in June; meanwhile, let me just set out and take credit for selected nuggets of good news.» (independent.co.uk)
Angela Eagle, the present Shadow Leader of the House could then shadow a substantial spending department; she should replace the lacklustre Stephen Twigg as Shadow Education Secretary. (leftfutures.org)