1400, UPDATE: The technical problems should have been resolved now. The complete live blog is now showing below.
1346, PH: Cameron sits down, and we’ll sign off. Apologies, again, for the technical problems – I filled in some of the gaps below. More from Coffee House soon.
1345, JF: Turn to page 178 of the Red Book and you see something telling. This Budget predicts growth of three to three and a half percent in 2011. But the average of independent forecasts predicts growth of 2.1
percent. Indeed, the Red Book cannot cite an independent forecast that predicts 3.5 percent growth in 2011.
1345, PH: Cameron’s on punchy form, hitting out at the dispatch box. He asks why the public would want to stick with a government that presided over the longest recession in history. “It’s like the captain of the Titanic saying ‘let me command the life boats’ … It’s like Richard Nixon saying ‘I’m the man to clean up politics’.”
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