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The Conservatives have the public finances on a trajectory to reach a surplus of £28bn by 2018-19, so Balls still has room to spend billions more than the Conservative plan.

The pair say that even if government spending is cut from 25.8% of GDP to the long-term average of 24.9%, within 10 years, tax receipts will still have to rise from 23.9% of GDP to 24.2% to reach a surplus of 1% of GDP.

The current account was expected to reach a surplus of 2.1% of GDP in 2012-13, and the net fiscal balance (after payments to Iran's National Development Fund) will register a surplus of 0.3% of GDP.

It also forecasts reduced federal deficits that eventually reach a surplus in 2012.

He stayed after receiving conditional backing by leading bankers and captains of industry, who warned Rousseff that failure to reach a primary surplus of 0.7% of GDP in 2016 budget and Levy's departure would trigger a downgrading of Brazil's sovereign credit rate below investment grade and further complicate efforts to contain and reverse the crisis.

And, of course, the budget reached a surplus in 1998.

Brake-even is reached with a surplus of 0.03 0.14 €/kWh on today's spot market price (fuel 0.08 €/kWh).

The current bailout terms envisage Greece reaching a budget surplus of 3.5% of GDP.

She said there would be no "emergency budget" to deal with the consequences of Brexit and promised that a Conservative government under May would no longer seek to reach a budget surplus by the end of the parliament, to avoid tax increases that might disrupt investment.

"We do not believe it will be possible to reach a 3.5% of GDP primary surplus [in 2018] by relying on hiking already high taxes levied on a narrow base, cutting excessively discretionary spending and counting on one-off measures as has been proposed in recent weeks".

As the last of Osborne's rules – the target of reaching a budget surplus by the end of this parliament – was quietly abandoned last week, note Theresa May's call for "an economy that works for everyone".