The Chancellor has outlined how he intends to bring down Britain's 109 billion pound budget deficit - the largest in Europe.
There will be redundancies in the public sector as nearly half a million posts are lost over the next four years and dozens of scheduled government programmes will stop.
George Osborne's promising six billion pounds of Whitehall savings - double the three billion he promised earlier.
The Treasury budget will be cut by 33 percent - the Cabinet Office budget reduced by 55 million pounds, and Royal Householding spending will fall by 14 percent.
Mr Osborne has announced a 7 billion pound hit on the welfare budget - saying his public spending package is "tough but fair".
In his spending review, he's also said that raising the state pension age to 66 would be brought forward to 2020, saving 5 billion a year.
Danny Webster, the Evangelical Alliance's Parliamentary Officer tells Premier what else the government could have done:
"Alternatively they could have raised taxes further rather than cutting spending. An alternative option proposed by Alan Johnson for the Labour Party would be to use taxes to raise around 40 per cent of what was needed rather than the 20 per cent the coalition government are doing."
Schools will see a small increase in their classroom funding, after the government's spending announcement.
Mr Osborne says the schools budget will increase from 35 billion pounds to 39 billion, over the next four years.
But he's also confirmed the Educational Maintenance Allowance, given to 16 to 19-year-olds from low-income families, has been scrapped.
The prison population will fall by around 3 thousand over the next four years as the Ministry of Justice cuts its budget.
The Treasury says "radical change" will see the department's resource budget cut by 23 percent, capital spending halved and its administration budget reduced by a third.
Three hundred and fifty million pounds will be taken from the legal aid fund and plans for a new, privately-run prison in Essex, have also been put on hold.
And the police are also facing financial pain - with budgets slashed by 4 percent every year until 2015.
Labour's accused Mr Osborne of "gambling" with people's livelihoods.
Premier asked President of the Methodist Conference Revd Alison Tomlin how the founder of the Methodist Church John Wesley would feel about today's spending review:
"I think he would have the same concerns the Methodist Church today has about suggesting that this is a lifestyle choice when it quite clearly isn't. For vast majority of people in need it's because that's where they are stuck, not what they chose."
Mr Osborne has announced a 7 billion pound hit on the welfare budget - saying his public spending package is 'tough but fair'.
In his spending review, he's also said that raising the state pension age to 66 would be brought forward to 2020, saving 5 billion a year.
Danny Webster, the Evangelical Alliance's Parliamentary Officer tells Premier Christians need to reach out now more than ever before.
The Chancellor's cuts have been branded the "greatest error seen in our lifetime" by a former Bank of England rate-setter. David Blanchflower said a double dip recession was now inevitable following the spending review.
Source: Premier Christian Media
