This is the full text of the Budget statement to the House of Commons, delivered by HM Treasury's Rt hon Alistair Darling MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer:

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Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling rose to deliver his second Budget statement to the House of Commons at 12.31pm today.

I have rarely been so angry after a budget speech. I’m fizzing. This was a cheap budget delivered in a manner unworthy of a man with the title of Chancellor of the Exchequer. There was no strategy, just a series of cheap and recycled announcements. It was a political budget in that he shamelessly appealed to the Labour Party’s happy little band of envy warriors. Remember Peter Mandelso...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer s expected to unveil a "balanced Budget", offering targeted pre-election sweeteners to key voters and telling the City he will curb his huge borrowing plans.

During yesterday’s questions to the Chancellor of the Exchequer after the announcement of the Pre-Budget Report, John Redwood highlighted the staggering levels of debt we are now seeing in the economy, and pressed the Government to be more transparent about its borrowing. John was also very critical of the fact that there was no

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Alistair Darling the Chancellor of the Exchequer today promised a Budget to speed economic recovery by protecting jobs and spreading prosperity.

Iain says at 9.22 am.... And as always with a Labour budget. Don't rush to judgement on it immediately. Iain says at 1.47pm.... I have rarely been so angry after a budget speech. I’m fizzing. This was a cheap budget delivered in a manner unworthy of a man with the title of Chancellor of the Exchequer. You really couldn't make him up could you. The man's a comic genius.