On Wednesday 22 April 2009, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, presented his first Budget since Britain officially went into recession.

Today’s Budget is widely regarded as the most important in decades: with continued economic uncertainty and rising unemployment on the one hand, and sharply deteriorating public finances and soaring levels of public borrowing on the other. The Chancellor himself acknowledged that this is the most serious global economic turmoil in 60 years, whilst David Cameron has said that this Budget demonstrated that any claim Labour have ever made to economic competence is now “dead, over, finished”.

A summary by Citigate Dewe Rogerson Public Policy, to download this report click here (PDF).

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Simon Nayyar
Managing Director, Public Policy
Citigate Dewe Rogerson

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