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    Dont count on that Howard.

    Defence is a special case. For 13 years it was the only department that could not count on an open chequebook and was starved of sufficient cash to carry out the jobs demanded of it. The last government made orders worth £38bn without providing the funds, a lot of that being important expenditure.

    Conservative MPs understand Defence far better than Labour ones simply because there are substantially more Conservatives with a defence background and it is much closer to their hearts than it is to Labour who are more interested in social workers. Therefore DC and GO are far more open to supporting defence spending than most other things. The defence cuts caused more headaches for the government among Conservative backbenchers than anything else, not to mention the Party in the country.

    So dont expect defence to set any kind of precedent.

    In other areas the government will just have to be a lot tougher and quite rightly so. The cuts are simply not deep enough.

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