The Guardian
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"In the harsh world of deeds not words, her chancellor’s autumn statement tells the all-too-familiar story of a Conservative government like all others. Year by year she is set to travel down the same anti-state path that shed 1m public jobs, that cut local authority budgets by 40% with more to come, where school budgets will lose £477 per secondary pupil per year, while police, post offices, courts, careers services, Border Force and children’s centres are stripped and shrunken."


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