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Cuts will lead to riots in streets: TUC chief

The leader of Britain’s trade union movement has warned of "riots on the streets" and unemployment of four million if the next government cuts public spending to pay for the £141bn deficit run up saving the banking sector from collapse.

A year on from the global economic crash, a determinedly upbeat Gordon Brown is prepared to tell the TUC conference in Liverpool tomorrow that the worst is over and declare that "we are on the road to recovery".