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Your support makes all the difference.Danny Alexander has become the latest victim of the lenses trained on senior politicians. The Chief Secretary to the Treasury had a copy of today's spending review document on his lap as he was snapped in his car, with words warning of 490,000 public sector job losses clearly visible.
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