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David Cameron will be quizzed by senior MPs today when he faces the liaison committee, with the coalition's public spending cuts likely to be high on the agenda.
The marathon two-and-a-half-hour session is the prime minister's first in front of the group, which is made up of the 33 chairs of the cross-party departmental select committees.
Cameron will be asked questions based around four themes: the spending review, the strategic defence and security review, Afghanistan and Pakistan and 'green government'.
Other thorny topics expected to be raised by the committee chairs are university tuition fees, police numbers and housing benefit reforms.
The bi-annual liaison committee appearances by the prime minister were instituted by Tony Blair in 2002, although former committee member Sir George Young has admitted it never "laid a glove" on him.
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Look, if the country is in a deep recession let's get reasonable here. Either (a) we carry on spending at the rate we have,and end up with nothing at all or (b) we downgrade the luxuries with all their competitive wants and needs and emerge that much kinder for it. We have been spoiled in having our interests in material possessions and high flying ideals honoured with such ease. Living simply is the happy way to a successful future and sometimes cuts in high expectations teach us a lesson we well deserve to learn - that we are extremely lucky to live in a prosperous nation where a majority of residents are not grovelling in poverty and destruction, that aren't crying out for a crust of bread and aren't literally terrified of being shot by an evil, Government that cares nothing for the welfare and safety of its own people.
Thank God that I live in England.
Margaret Vaughan
18th Nov 2010 at 2:55 pm
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