Johnson maintains that all of O'Hair's personal spending money came from public speaking engagements.

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This might be relevant for an application for a specific device, such as a personal digital assistant, on which the BBC could not justify spending licence fee money.

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Nevertheless, the chancellor did find money from squeezing day-to-day spending to pay for important personal and business tax cuts and a multi-billion pound attempt to boost the construction industry.

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