Peter Hoskin

Spending review live blog 

1350, PH: And that’s Johnson finished now. Osborne is responding, but we’ll leave the live blog there. Plenty more coverage on Coffee House soon.

1348, PH:
Johnson claims that Osborne’s final point about 19 percent departmental cuts is misleading. He goes on to say that Labour would now cut departmental budgets by half the amount.

1346, PH: Labour’s method for deflecting the increase in the NHS budget is taking shape: Johnson claims that it will be swallowed by a “wasteful” reorganisation of the service.

1342, PH: Now Johnson is focussing on the figure of 490,000 public sector job losses. He says that welfare cuts will make it harder for them to find employment.

1342, PH: More gags than graphs from Johnson, at the moment.

1341, PH: Johnson observes that the people of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland don’t back the cuts – “perhaps that’s why [Osborne] calls himself a One Nation Tory.

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