On 15th September, Gordon Brown finally uttered the word ‘cuts’, but he diluted the shock by pledging that frontline services would be protected. He told the TUC:
“But when our plans are published in the coming months, people will see that Labour will not support cuts in vital frontline services on which people depend.
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