article_snippet: The Institute for Fiscal Studies warned that The Institute for Fiscal Studies would be impossible to meet such demands to protect defence spending without imposing huge cuts on other areas of spending such as policing, transport and energy – especially with health, schools and foreign aid already protected.
article_snippet: Economist Soumaya Keynes said that unprotected departments are already facing real terms budget cuts averaging 9.4 per cent by 2020.
article_snippet: Protecting defence spending at 2 per cent would mean that other departments would have to be slashed by 16.4 per cent.
article_snippet: Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls (pictured with Mr Osborne) waded into row saying the Chancellor's desire to get an overall surplus by 2019/20 means even bigger cuts to police and defence forces in years .
article_snippet: Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls waded into row yesterday, saying: ‘Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls (George Osborne’s) desire to get to an overall surplus by 2019/20 means even bigger cuts in the next three years to our police, our defence forces than our’ve seen in the last few years.