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Can I just ask about this spending review? Danny Alexander said the other day you talk about fiscal nimbyism’, with some ministers being prepared to justify cuts in general, but not to their departments. What would you say to your colleagues who seem to be digging in against all this?

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I’m delighted that the Chief Secretary, as all Chief Secretaries do, is making points like that. That’s absolutely right; that’s what they’re for. Look, these spending rounds are always difficult. They involve difficult decisions, but I’m sure that the Coalition will step up to the plate and make them.

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Do you think it’s inevitable you’ll have to go back to welfare again?

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Prime Minister

As I’ve said, we’ll make the right decisions.

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Can I just clarify one thing from today, one really important thing: why it is you declined to apologise?

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In my view, we’re dealing with something here that happened a good 40 years before I was even born, and we’re also dealing with something which, as I said, Winston Churchill described as monstrous’ at the time and the British Government rightly condemned at the time. I don’t think the right thing is to reach […]

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Can I bring you back on George’s point to have another go around the spending review? There have been some suggestions that there might be some scope for a slightly more creative use of money between the aid and defence budgets. I’m just wondering whether you have any thoughts on whether or not there is […]

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Prime Minister

I think we have to demonstrate that the DFID budget is used wisely. One of the things that Justine Greening is rightly keen on is to make sure that countries that are affected by conflict, that we think about them particularly. There’s a real national interest there as well. First of all, conflict states, they […]

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That could mean pooling of budgets.

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Prime Minister

There is already. There’s the Conflict Pool, which we already have. Can we do more? Can we build on this approach? I’m very open to ideas like that. We have our moral responsibilities for tackling poverty around the world; we also have our national security responsibilities for mending conflict states and helping with development around […]

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