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George Osborne signalled last week that he'd need to come back for £25 billion more cuts after 2015.
All this after promising in 2011 that "we have already asked the British people for what is needed, and today we do not need to ask for more."
After suggesting 10 tax rises Osborne could do to avoid making the cuts, here are 10 cuts the chancellor could make that would have the rare achievement of getting swift support from his critics on the political left.