LONDON (AP) — Britain's poor and powerful have clashed over who will lose out most under austerity measures that will slash benefits, jobs and government services to reduce the country's crippling debts.
Treasury chief George Osborne has announced 81 billion pounds ($128 billion) in spending cuts through 2015 that will cost as many as half a million public sector jobs and trim welfare payments to families and the disabled.
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