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The budget You can’t believe
Secret plan to slash NHS spending buried in figures
SECRET Tory plans to slash NHS spending were exposed yesterday as Chancellor George Osborne tried to sell Britain the “Budget that cannot be believed.
”Mr Osborne delighted punters who bet that he would use the final budget before the election to boast about the success of his “long-term economic plan.”
But he mentioned the NHS just once in an hour-long monologue in Parliament.Labour leader Ed Miliband said that was because the Chancellor is hiding his plans to put Britain’s most cherished public service under the knife after the election.
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