UK budget: Healey accepts smaller fiscal buffer after global shocks hit economy
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- ✓UK Chancellor Healey accepted a smaller fiscal buffer in the new budget to protect families from global economic storms.
- ✓Healey said, "That's what a buffer is for.
- ✓Use it when you need it." The government plans to get Britain’s finances into the black within 3 years despite many ongoing challenges.
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- India Economy
Below are quotes from Healey:
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HEALEY'S FIRST WORDS
"This is a budget for the working people of Britain, for British businesses, big and small, delivered at a time when global uncertainties and pressures are swirling worldwide and hitting people here at home. A budget built on fiscal discipline, which matches immediate action today, with clear direction for the future."
GLOBAL ECONOMIC STORMS
"Analysts like to speak of economic headwinds. But what we face today are global economic storms with trade tensions acting as a drag on global growth, and (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's illegal invasion of Ukraine approaching the end of its fifth year."
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