George Osborne has billions in war chest to cut national debt

Wed, 12/08/2010 - 17:58 EDT - Telegraph

The Government is sitting on a war chest worth billions of pounds that could
be used to help reduce the national debt or finance new spending plans, the
Chancellor admits.

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