UK Budget, 2014

Full Budget, pdf file

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Below the belt, from the Chancellor's speech:

"We will also support the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta next year.
King John’s humbling centuries ago seems unimaginably distant.
A weak leader, who had risen to the top – after betraying his brother, compelled by a gang of unruly barons to sign on the dotted line.
So I will provide a grant to the Magna Carta Trust to ensure that today’s generation learn the lessons of the past".

Transcript of speech in full

Bingo! (Huffington Post)

PR disaster- condescending? (Telegraph)

Not so funny: Polly Toynbee (The Guardian)