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Budget Resolutions and Economic Situation

Presumably the right hon. Gentleman dissents from the rather angst-ridden part of the Leader of the Opposition's speech in which he drew attention to a variance between the forecasts in the Chancellor's speech and those in another document. These are forecasts containing huge ranges of assumptions and possible outcomes. If we could get them precisely right, many of us would not be sitting here; we would be earning rather more than those taxi-rank figures quoted by other Members.