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The Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, responding to Osborne, accused him of delivering a budget with "unfairness at its very core".
Delivering a budget that early — which has not been done since 1995 — will present challenges for the State Division of the Budget, which will have to forecast next year's revenue earlier than usual.
Speaking to MPs on the Treasury select committee, the OBR chairman, Robert Chote, said the move would increase the deficit but would not prevent the chancellor from delivering a budget surplus in the year before the next general election.
George Osborne has bowed to growing concern over the biggest squeeze in living standards since the second world war with an instant cut in fuel duty, but had his claim to be delivering a budget for growth undermined by the ominous prospect of lower growth, rising unemployment and higher borrowing.
Harman accused the chancellor of delivering a budget that was more about his own personal ambitions to "move next door", to 10 Downing Street, than it was about economic strategy, but she admitted that a Labour government would have cut spending outside protected departments and reduced the welfare bill.
The chancellor said he was delivering a budget for a "modern reformed state" as he spoke of 1.25 million new jobs, interest rates at a record low and cutting the deficit by a third.
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