Eight Cabinet ministers, chaired by Boris Johnson, met on Monday to discuss Tory manifesto:
* Tories planning big hike in police numbers, well beyond 20k pledge
* Internal polling shows they are ‘streets ahead’ of Labour on law and order
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‘There was an acknowledgment that there needs to be trade-off between higher levels of public spending and lower taxation
‘We can’t have both. There has to be a balance’