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‘Honesty expected’ over spending

Posted on Sunday, July 5th, 2009 and is filed under UK News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

A former Cabinet minister has warned that the debate over public spending needed to "deepen a little bit" because people expected honesty about future cuts. Former defence secretary John Hutton said it was not possible to continue to "spend as if nothing has happened" as "people know something big-time has changed". Mr Hutton resigned from the Government last month during Gordon Brown’s Cabinet reshuffle and insisted he quit for "personal, not political" reasons. In recent weeks, the Prime Minister and Conservative leader David Cameron have repeatedly clashed over public spending, with Mr Cameron publicly questioning the honesty of Mr Brown’s claims….

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