Budget deficit

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  Ed Miliband tells Labour to face reality of deficit

  10 Jan 2012:

  Leader sets out new direction and warns party it faces difficult choices on spending at next election

• Low bond yields suggest economic weakness ahead

  23 Dec 2011: Bond yields on 10-year UK gilts dipped below 2% in thin pre-Christmas trading on Friday, making it cheaper for the Treasury to finance the UK's budget deficit. A triumph for the government?

• Public borrowing figures boost chancellor's deficit hopes

  21 Dec 2011: George Osborne has inched closer to meeting his deficit reduction targets despite mounting fears over the strength of the economy

• OBR attacked by MPs over economic forecasts

  6 Dec 2011:

  Office for Budget Responsibility criticised after admitting forecast for size of UK economy in 2015 was out by £65bn

• George Osborne's autumn statement speaks to the public mood

  1 Dec 2011: Martin Kettle: The British are pessimistic about the economy. But they still do not blame the coalition

• Labour urged to stop dithering over deficit reduction

  1 Dec 2011:

  Former advisers tell Ed Miliband to focus on economy claiming voters need more specific answers on Labour plans

• Britain on a budget: Osborne, the fiscal watchdog and some bare truths

  29 Nov 2011: Austerity with no end date and receding targets feature in the new forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility

• George Osborne exploits fall in borrowing costs to boost growth

  29 Nov 2011:

  Chancellor to move to reassure markets by declaring he is still on course to eliminate structural budget deficit

• Ed Miliband: coalition will leave Labour with a deficit to cut

  24 Nov 2011: Labour leader targets disillusioned government supporters as parties prepare for 2015 election fought on cuts programmes

• Osborne on course to hit deficit target – but good news may not last

  22 Nov 2011:

  Chancellor receives boost as Office for National Statistics data shows borrowing excluding state aid for UK banks fell from £7.7bn in 2010 to £6.5bn last month

• Excuses, excuses, excuses – the chancellor is running out of alibis

  20 Nov 2011:

  Andrew Rawnsley: The blame game over who is responsible for our dire economic state now sees the government turning on itself

• Is George Osborne panicking enough?

  17 Nov 2011: Tim Montgomerie: The chancellor's judgment not to increase debt has been vindicated, but he must now go on the attack

• Osborne to miss deficit target as UK economy stalls and unemployment rises

  17 Nov 2011:

  Eurozone crisis hits home as Bank of England cuts growth forecasts and makes grim predictions of a weak recovery

• Government borrowing figures better than expected

  21 Oct 2011: Osborne's austerity drive and increases in tax receipts led to the September budget deficit coming in below City forecasts at £14.1bn

• George Osborne's inaction is by design

  7 Oct 2011:

  The Treasury is late preparing for the recession. It was a deliberate gamble that hasn't paid off for the chancellor George Osborne

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