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Tories pledge 'government of thrift'

Updated on 26 April 2009

By Sue Turton

David Cameron promises a new age of austerity to balance the country's books at the party conference in Cheltenham.

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The Conservative leader pledged to make a host of cuts if the Tories win the next election.

Blaming Labour for the recession, he told party activists in Cheltenham that a culture of thrift was the only way forward.

He also said his government would publish details of top-earning public servants who he accused of "getting rich at the taxpayers' expense".

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