Budget 2010: Darling speech in full

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"Mr Deputy Speaker, this Budget takes place as the UK economy is emerging from the deepest global recession for over 60 years...

  It has been a testing time which has required Governments across the world to make difficult choices and take unprecedented actions. We had to decide whether to intervene to rescue the fina...

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