London, May 16: Stating that the previous Labour government had indulged in “crazy” spending decision, Britain’s new Prime Minister David Cameron today announced an audit of accounts during the last year of the Gordon Brown administration.
In his first television interview after taking over as Prime Minister of a coalition government, Cameron told the BBC that the audit would be officially launched on Monday by the new Office of Budget Responsibility. He also said there would be a crackdown on top civil service pay and bonuses.
He said: “What we have seen so far are just individual examples of very bad procedures and bad behaviour, spending decisions taken in the last year or so of the Labour government that no rational government would have done - giving something like 75 percent of senior civil servants bonuses after everything that’s happened in the current year”.
He added: “That’s not a fiscal stimulus. It is a crazy thing to do. We are beginning to find individual decisions like that.”
According to him, the the coalition between his Conservative Party and the Liberal Democrats would last, and said the Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg, who is now the deputy prime minister, would be part of his “inner circle” and have a say in hiring and firing ministers.
On his plans to fix the term of parliament, he said the time had come in Britain to move in this direction.

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