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Chancellor John Healey says "now is not the time for just crude, deep cuts" to welfare because of cost-of-living pressures, but that he and the prime minister agree the welfare bill must be brought down. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00There is never any easy way in government of funding anything.
00:04What Andy Burnham and I have said is that we have to bring down the cost of welfare,
00:09we have to bring down the benefits bill.
00:12Now is not the time for just crude deep cuts to spending,
00:16not least because people are under pressure and feeling the cost of living.
00:20But we can do this in a different way and we can do this especially for the youngsters,
00:24the million young unemployed.

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