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Andy Burnham on twitter was my source, in hindsight not perhaps entirely reliable!

Turns out police budgets are only protected in cash terms, not in real terms therefore police in line for real terms cuts.

Because he was so strongly in favour of it, argued that it was financial pressures that made it necessary and slammed the Lords for daring to object to it. It turns out that financially it is in fact affordable and that more likely than not it was a political decision (potentially shaped by his...

Sorry, don't understand any of that!

Police budget not being cut. Allegedly.

£16.3bn by the end of the parliament

A new stamp duty rate for people buying homes as buy to let will be 3% higher than normal stamp duty - like that. Hopefully another nail in the buy to let coffin.

Tax credit cuts abandoned, pretty embarrassing reversal for Georgey porgy