Letter: Government's cuts are the right option

Letter: As the Government begins to implement the decisions of the comprehensive spending review, there are many difficult and potentially painful consequences.

While these may be difficult decisions, I am in no doubt that they are the right decisions.

Labour left Britain with the biggest budget deficit in the developed world. According to recent IMF figures, the UK has the largest deficit of any G20 country in 2010. At £155 billion in 2009-10, the budget deficit was the largest in our peacetime history.

Consequently, we are spending £120 million every day just to pay off the interest on the debt.

The alternative of not dealing with this problem is to risk ending up like Greece with soaring interest rates and more jobs lost.

What is essential is each spending decision must be fair.

The Government will ensure those with the broadest shoulders bear the greatest burden through the combined impact of our tax, benefit and spending changes, in cash terms and as a proportion of their income.

Daniel Kawczynski MP

Member of Parliament for Shrewsbury and Atcham