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World Service,10 mins

Public Spending UK

Analysis Archive

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In Britain, the political temperature is rising as the general election is now less than a year away. And the political and economic landscape has changed dramatically since the last election, with public debt and spending plans at the heart of an increasingly bad-tempered debate, as our political correspondent, Nick Childs, reports.

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