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CLADDING HOUSEHOLDS ‘PAYING FOR COST- CUTTING AND GOVERNMENT MISTAKES’

If you’re a government minister, one phrase you don’t want to see popping up in your press coverage too often is “pressure is growing”. This doesn’t just mean that there are people who oppose you (I mean, aren’t there always?); it means the media have collectively decided that enough of them oppose you to make a U-turn probable, and thus will keep banging on about it until it happens.

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