Pre-Budget further reading

June 20, 2010 9:01 am by Alex Barker

Budget to wipe out deficit by 2015 with at least £24bn extra cuts – FT
Tories hope brutal Budget will be more 1981 than 1993 — FT
Osborne opens gateway to anguish — FT
Budget to include Nics break for employers — BBC
Rise in VAT may be deferred to cushion economy — The Sunday Telegraph
Osborne to launch assault on welfare benefits – The Observer
Axe hovers over benefits for 1.1m pensioners overseas — David Wooding, NoW
Don’t worry, this won’t hurt (much) – The Economist
Osborne will fall off giant see saw — Alistair Darling
Boy George is wearing the coalition trousers – Andrew Rawnsley
Don’t worry, it is all downhill from here — Fraser Nelson
Brace for the classic Tory VAT switch — Gary Gibbon C4 News
Lib Dems jittery about the Budget bloodbath — The Mail on Sunday

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