Where will the axe fall? Whitehall waits for the bloodbath
David Cameron used to joke that George Osborne would move into his grace and favour flat in Downing Street only when protests at the spending cuts “turned really violent”. But his hopes of remaining one step removed from the £86bn bloodbath were dashed when he was forced to intervene in ferocious rows between the Treasury and Whitehall departments, most notably the Ministry of Defence.
Published Oct 16, 2010.
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