Redwood: Cuts not too bad

Conservative John Redwood writes on his blog about the government’s free milk announcements:

“The intervention of the Prime Minister to save the milk also confirms… the increases in cash spending allowed for in the next four years do not require as much pain and as many difficult cuts as the public sector wants you to believe.

“If we can keep the free milk for the under 5s it cannot be that eye wateringly tough out there.

“It will still require some good management of course – and there will still be public sector managers who choose to cut things we would rather they didn’t, even allowing for the cash increases in the totals.”