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There has been a lot of controversy in the U.K. about the Budget, which was announced by the Chancellor last week. The Guardian’s Economics Editor called it ‘cynical, deluded and regressive’. Today, writing in The Observer, Will Hutton (Chair of the Big Innovation Centre) says the budget was ‘littered with dissimulation and sometimes near-lies’ The usual question of who comes out of the budget best has been concentrated this year on whether the winners are the rich and the losers the poor, especially the poorer pensioners. Much of the content of the budget was leaked over several weeks. But there