Budget 2010: Government faces ‘tough targets' to meet fiscal deficit
The government set "tougher targets than expected" in yesterday's Budget, fund managers say.
And European economist Azad Zangana said Chancellor George Osborne's targets for reducing the country's fiscal deficit in the emergency Budget were "quite ambitious". Zangana said: ""They set tougher...
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