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The Budget

No. I shall not accept that false challenge. The baying Members on the Conservative Benches know that their argument has been completely destroyed. If that growth had continued on an upward trajectory and if through our policies the recovery had turned into a sustained upward trajectory we would not have had to cut as much as we had originally anticipated. In the comprehensive spending review, where we set out our policies, programmes and departmental budgets for the coming three years, we would have spelled out what was necessary. That is why, if we had got a Labour Government last year, we would have seen a very different future for the Welsh economy and a very different Budget from the one we have just had.