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Leading independent analysis find’s UK Budget deeply unfair

Britain's leading analysts of the UK Budget, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, has concluded that the measures contained in the recent UK Budget  would hit the poor harder than the rich. They reject the Government’s claim that the budget was “tough but fair”. This was before the British Chancellor admitted that he was looking for extra cuts in the social welfare budget. There are lessons here for the Irish Government as it prepares its Budget for 2011. More than rhetoric is required to deliver a fair and progressive Budget.

UK Budget June 22, 2010 - key features and full details