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| Pressure on Brown over cash cuts | Pressure on Brown over cash cuts |
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| Political leaders from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are expected jointly to put pressure on Gordon Brown over future proposed budget cuts. | Political leaders from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are expected jointly to put pressure on Gordon Brown over future proposed budget cuts. |
| Welsh First Minister Rhodri Morgan and his Scottish and Northern Irish first ministers will meet the prime minister later. | |
| The Welsh Assembly Government has already warned it could get £500m less from the UK government in the future. | The Welsh Assembly Government has already warned it could get £500m less from the UK government in the future. |
| But Mr Brown is expected to demand that the savings are made. | But Mr Brown is expected to demand that the savings are made. |
| Mr Morgan said governments needed to ensure that public money was in place to keep the economy moving until industrial and consumer demand pick up. | |
| "We have to use public expenditure in classic Keynesian fashion [a macroeconomic theory started by British economist John Maynard Keynes] to try to take the place of very, very weak private consumer demand and industrial demand and then we turn that round once we are sure that the private sector recovery is in place," he said. | |
| "Then we start the pay down of the levels of national debt we have got now." | |
| Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said the leaders of the devolved governments would be urging the prime minister to rethink his plans. | Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said the leaders of the devolved governments would be urging the prime minister to rethink his plans. |
| Mr Salmond has told the BBC's Politics Show Wales that all three devolved administrations are enormously worried by, what he calls the "huge implications" of the "looming cutbacks". | Mr Salmond has told the BBC's Politics Show Wales that all three devolved administrations are enormously worried by, what he calls the "huge implications" of the "looming cutbacks". |
| He said no-one wanted to see public expenditure cut during a recession and he believed that by making the argument jointly they could ensure a rethink. | He said no-one wanted to see public expenditure cut during a recession and he believed that by making the argument jointly they could ensure a rethink. |
| The UK Treasury's planned efficiency savings aim to save £5bn over the next few years. | The UK Treasury's planned efficiency savings aim to save £5bn over the next few years. |
| The UK Government's plan, announced in the pre-Budget report, aims to help save the UK from a deep recession, but has taken the country's borrowing to record levels. | The UK Government's plan, announced in the pre-Budget report, aims to help save the UK from a deep recession, but has taken the country's borrowing to record levels. |
| At the weekend, Chancellor Alistair Darling urged Mr Salmond to stop "blustering" and work out how to make the Scottish Government more cost-effective. | At the weekend, Chancellor Alistair Darling urged Mr Salmond to stop "blustering" and work out how to make the Scottish Government more cost-effective. |
| Also at the meeting will be Secretary of State for Wales Paul Murphy, and Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Secretary of State Sean Woodward. | Also at the meeting will be Secretary of State for Wales Paul Murphy, and Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness and Secretary of State Sean Woodward. |