Spending Review: Osborne refuses to rule out police cuts
Police cuts: Terror response warning to home secretary
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It is expected that Chancellor George Osborne could announce cuts to the police budget of more than 20% when he addresses Parliament on Wednesday.
That is more than double what the document suggests is viable to keep numbers at the level required in the event of an attack.
The BBC has seen key paragraphs of the document, Implications of the Paris Attack for UK Police Preparedness.
It suggests further cuts to police budgets would affect the authorities' ability to respond to multiple attacks.
Steve White, chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We can barely cope now.
"If there are going to be further cuts to the police service, quite frankly, God help us. We are not going to be able to respond to something on the scale of Paris."
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Forget the Clown Corbyn, this man has the power and with no credible oppostion, is imposing ideologically driven policies on this country. Yes, it is a given that he will seek to reduce the benefits for the poor and the disabled, yes it is a given he will not seek to curb the greed of the City, Big Business and the wealthy but did the people who voted for him really expect him to slash the services they hold dear: police, local council services, etc.
The people who voted for the Tories are starting to possibly regret giving Dave a majority .. when Dave had to work with the LibDems there was a small degree of control, now, in the immortal words of Corporal Frasier: 'We're doomed!"