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UK makes sharpest cuts in decades in new budget (AP)

June 22nd, 2010

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, right, and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander attend a meeting at 10 Downing Street, London, Monday June 21, 2010, ahead of the coalition government's first budget. (AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski)AP - Britain’s Treasury chief George Osborne has announced the toughest cuts to public spending in decades and new tax rises in an emergency budget aimed at sharply reducing the country’s record debts.


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