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Sir: Debt, debt everywhere. Britain really is in trouble if — as Fraser Nelson suggests (Politics, 15 March) — the Conservative opposition is shying away from the ‘obvious strategy’ of proposing to freeze public spending or cut taxes.
There is a sensible ‘bottom up’ approach for our leaders to take, namely to start budgeting from a base of zero expenditure.

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