One MP described it as "salami slicing power" away from Westminster, which is not a bad description.

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Paul Beaver, of the magazine Jane's Defence Weekly, said the grounding of the helicopters was a result of "10 years of salami slicing defence cuts".

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That's why far from simply salami-slicing numbers coming here with no thought to the impact that will have on business, we have thought incredibly carefully about how we can select and attract the world's brightest to our shores.

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