Tory policies mask cuts agenda, claims Blears

By Ben Cook, Third Sector Online, 13 June 2008

Communities secretary Hazel Blears has claimed that the Tories' third sector policies are a ploy to cut funding for local government, the NHS and schools.

Speaking at a Labour campaign dinner in Putney, south-west London on 11 June, Blears said Conservative leader David Cameron was not a "convinced localist" who was trying to win power in order to devolve it. "No, he's engaged in an enormous con trick," she said. "His enthusiasm for localism, for...

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