UKIP economic spokesman Patrick O’Flynn today criticised
George Osborne for resorting to “smoke and mirror politics” to pretend
Britain’s budget deficit was under control.
Mr O’Flynn said: “The one thing we learned today is that the current
year’s deficit is going to come in at more than £90bn. That is a disgrace and
very far away from what Mr Osborne promised back in 2010.
“It is also frankly foolish for the Chancellor to claim that he has
halved the deficit based on an optimistic forecast about what might happen to it
in the next financial year 2015-16.
“Mr Osborne should by now have learned the lesson that trust can be
easily lost but is much harder to regain.
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