A sacked former cabinet member has aimed a swipe at £10 billion plans to encourage people to walk and cycle - while schools brace themselves for devastating cuts.
Kit Malthouse, who was booted out as Education Secretary when Rishi Sunak became PM this week, called on the PM and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt not to resort to "salami slicing" of government departments.
Mr Hunt will deliver an autumn statement on November 17, in which he is expected to usher in a new era of Tory austerity as officicials try to fill a £40bn black hole left after Liz Truss left.
