Budget cuts will 'affect our whole way of life' - Cameron

Prime Minister David Cameron is set to deliver his starkest warning yet about the action needed to tackle Britain's budget deficit and public debt.

He is expected to say today the UK's economic problems are "even worse than we thought" as he sets out why he believes "painful" cuts are necessary, according to the BBC. Cameron will warn how the £156bn deficit is tackled will affect "our whole way of life" and the "massive deficit and growing debt" are the most urgent issues facing Britain. He will say: "Today I want to set out for the country the big arguments that form the background to the inevitably painful times that lie ahead of us, why we need to do this, why the overall scale of the problem is even worse than we thought and ...