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Budget

Asked if it was true that the Budget was done and dusted on Friday, the Prime Minister’s Spokesman (PMS) said that the Chancellor had said yesterday during the Andrew Marr show that the only thing he had left to do was his speech.

Asked if the Prime Minister was minded to listen to businesses regarding stronger strike legislation, the PMS said that there were no plans to change strike legislation.

Asked if the Prime Minister recognised the former-Chancellor Alistair Darling’s comments that cuts were often ideological rather than economically sensible, the PMS said that the Prime Minister had been clear that the priority at the present time was to tackle the deficit, which was not driven by ideology but by where we were and what we had to do. We had a very large structural deficit, which the Office for Budget Responsibility had estimated to be 8.8% of GDP, and we had to do something about that.

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