"We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought..."

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Source: Jeremy Paxman and Theresa May's Newsnight exchange. Interview with Jeremy Paxman, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 6, 2010.

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