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Badenoch Mocks Budget as '4p Off Gherkins'
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch told MPs most people watching John Healey's Budget would ask "is that it?", saying Prime Minister Andy Burnham promised to reverse 40 years of neoliberalism but delivered "4p off gherkins". She said Britain was overspent, overborrowed and overtaxed and attacked the lack of welfare cuts to fund defence, but welcomed the cash Isa U-turn and no rise in capital gains tax.
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