article_snippet: Despite confirming that George Osborne's Budget was agreed by the Tories and the Lib Dems, Lib Dem Treasury minister Danny Alexander criticised the plans contained in George Osborne's Budget to cut government spending to 1964 levels - 'the era of Cathy Come Home'.
article_snippet: Mr Alexander said Tory spending plans would take government consumption back to the levels seen in 1964, adding: 'The era of Cathy Come Home is not my vision for the future of Britain' Labour frontbencher Andrew Gwynne reached across the table separating the despatch boxes with a copy of the red book and dropped it in front of Mr Alexander .
article_snippet: But the era of Cathy Come Home is not my vision for the future of Britain.'
highlights_snippet: Claims Lib Dems do not want to got back to the era of 'Cathy Come Home'
  