Britain's finance minister said spending cuts to be unveiled this week will restore credibility to a country that had been on the brink of bankruptcy as he vowed Sunday to see the measures through to the end.
George Osborne said Wednesday's comprehensive spending review -- the biggest test yet for Prime Minister David Cameron's coalition government -- was now complete, some five months after it inherited a record deficit.
"Our plan is the plan that will restore credibility to the public finances," Osbourne told the BBC.
"We have to see this through and the course I set out in the budget (in June) is the one that we have to stick to because people in this country know we were on the brink of bankruptcy.
"If we're going to have growth and jobs in the future, we've got to move this country into a place where people can invest with confidence."