A CALL by Liam Fox for a five-year freeze on public spending to pay down the national deficit and fund tax cuts as well as an end to protecting certain Whitehall budgets has been firmly rejected by David Cameron.
Just days before the Spring Budget, the former Defence Secretary – regarded as a standard-bearer for the Tory Right – insisted it was time to reverse the "great socialist coup" of the last decade by ending the culture of welfare dependency.
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