Cameron: Austerity should last for ever and Britain must get used to being a 'leaner, more efficient state'
Mail Online - 11/11/13, James Chapman
Pro austerity: Prime Minister David Cameron made his comments at the annual Lord Mayor's Banquet at Guildhall in London alongside other ministers and lords
The top table: (From left to right) Sheriff Alderman Sir Paul Judge; Lady Judge; Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf; Prime Minister David Cameron; Nicholas Woolf, the Lord Mayor's husband; Angela Waddingham; Sheriff Adrian Waddingham
The Prime Minister used one of his most significant speeches of the year to say that low public spending and a ‘leaner, more efficient state’ would have to be maintained permanently in order for the UK to succeed.
Procession: Cameron walks through the Guildhall with Lord Mayor of London Fiona Woolf and Nicholas Woolf, the Lord Mayor's husband, before the banquet
Sea of red: Dignitaries wait in the Guildhall before the
arrival of the Prime Minster ahead of
The Lord Mayor's Banquet on November 11, 2013
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