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Blair cabinet chief Lord O'Donnell warns against PFI 'accounting games'

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Lord Gus O’Donnell said it would be crazy’ for Labour to use PFI to cut Government spending.

PFI involves private financers bearing the immediate cost for much of the project with the Government paying it off in the long term.

The former Cabinet Secretary said he is more widely supportive of PFI , but only if done properly.

Lord O’Donnell said the scandal was 'blown out of all proportion' He said he believes the Civil Service is a 'reset' under the Tories .

O'Donnell said: 'There is this sense of there being a reset. There being a sense of, you know, mutual respect'.

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