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Budget 2009

January 2010

  • Aerial view of suburban residential housing in London. Photograph: Jason Hawkes/Getty Images

    Shortfall of 500,000 affordable homes if budget is cut, warns housing group

    • Only half of planned 1m new homes could be built by 2020
    • Prediction means '1.25m more people on waiting lists'

December 2009

  • Observer comment cartoon
    Move over Darling

    Chris Riddell

    Chris Riddell on spending cuts

  • Gordon Brown during Prime Ministers questions Wednesday 2 December 2009

    Resurgent Brown ready to declare class war on Tories

    Alistair Darling's pre-budget report this week will fire the first salvos in a six-month election campaign
  • Tax evasion: loopholes now closed

    The government has already raised hundreds of millions by cracking down on some areas of abuse

October 2009

  • Are those shoots any greener?

    Guardian round table
    Guardian round table: Last budget day, we gauged optimism around economic recovery. Six months later, we return to our experts

September 2009

  • Will Hutton

    Slashing the national debt can wait. First we must invest, invest, invest

    Will Hutton

    Will Hutton: worrying about the budget deficit is a sure way to economic collapse

August 2009

  • Larry Elliott

    Economics viewpoint
    Get ready for the dawning of the age of austerity

    Larry Elliott

    Ballooning budget deficit will usher a prolonged period of belt-tightening over the next decade

June 2009

  • Mervyn King attacks Alistair Darling over 'extraordinary' budget deficit

  • Record budget deficit hits £20bn

  • Polly Toynbee

    Candour is the weapon to target the Tory achilles heel

    Polly Toynbee
  • Alistair Darling

    Darling to cut public spending, admitting difficult choices lie ahead

May 2009

  • Banks' code of conduct may include tax demand

  • Alistair Darling

    Ratings agency downgrades outlook for UK economy

  • IMF tells Britain: next government must move fast to cut budget deficit

  • Alistair Darling before he delivers his budget speech

    Alistair Darling on the UK's recession: it'll be over by Christmas

  • Taxpayers deserve a stronger charter

    Phillip Inman
  • Guy Hands moves to Guernsey to join tax exiles

  • Don't neglect child poverty

    Carey Oppenheim
  • Delivery in an age of austerity

    George Osborne
  • MPs attack Darling's growth forecast

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