The armed forces face losing important skills because of the speed of government spending cuts are being implemented, Whitehall's spending watchdog says.

The Treasury is criticised for the way it monitors government spending and manages risk, in an MPs' report.

Labour should avoid routinely opposing government spending cuts, shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy says.

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Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers have been accused of "total hypocrisy" for campaigning against the effects of Government spending cuts in their own constituencies.

If I were a cleverer person than I am, I would try to create a joke with a punch line to fit the following set-up: What’s the difference between a cut in government spending and an ideological cut in government spending? That I’m not clever enough to create a pithy punch line is of no

             It is intriguing to hear how popular the draft new treaty for the 17  is proving with admirers of more EU government. They are often the kind of people who think more government spending and borrowing are a good idea. This pact recommends the opposite. It proposes big cuts in spending and big

"We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending. I tell you in all candour that that option no longer exists." James Callaghan

Caroline Lucas has exposed a further £2bn of government spending on a new nuclear weapons programme to replace the current Trident system. This brings the total spending so far to £6bn on a system which has not yet even been authorised.

The chancellor will use next week's Autumn Statement to switch some government spending from current to capital spending, Chief secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander says.