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Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

I can tell the hon. Gentleman that there is not the slightest prospect of a Labour Government in the future adopting the policies proposed by the Conservative party. We believe that a deficit reduction over a period will give this nation state a financial soft landing. What the Conservatives promise us—they do not offer it—is a hard landing for the economy and for those in work. Conservative Members can take their campaign to the country. We too will take it to the country. The Conservatives will send to the country—those who are in the Chamber are nodding—an emergency Budget and emergency cuts, and we shall see unemployment rise. I shall come later to the point made by my right hon. Friend the Member for West Dunbartonshire (John McFall), but that is what is being offered in this Budget debate.