By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk
Shadow chancellor Alan Johnson has warned that George Osborne’s job cut plans could cost the taxpayer £8bn, based on the redundancy bill for the Ministry of Justice, where 14,000 staff are set to lose their jobs at a cost of £230m. Johnson said:
“If the taxpayer has to foot a comparable redundancy bill for the 490,000 jobs that are to go across the public sector, George Osborne has lined them up for an £8bn hit. That is the price of going too far and too fast. On a timetable determined by the date of next election, not the economic cycle.”
As Johnson himself said yesterday – the announcements from the CSR are “unravelling”…
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