Given the constraints that we are under, given the need to tighten our belts, given the need to reduce the deficit, this President feels very strongly that it is inappropriate to continue those subsidies.
In the meantime many of the medicines our children are given are being given outside the very system that is designed to protect patients from inappropriate drugs.
The veteran Liberal Democrat peer Shirley Williams came to the defence of Lord Rennard yesterday describing him as a "very fine man" and suggesting the allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour were exaggerated.
Ray Hodgson, from campaign group Residents Against Inappropriate Development (RAID), said he was "very disappointed" at the planning inspectorate's decision.