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By Robert Skidelsky
Published: December 22 2009 20:30 | Last updated: December 22 2009 20:30
It is not surprising that Britain's largest economic downturn since the war should have seen the largest ever peacetime government budget deficit. By the end of this year Britain's output will have fallen by about 5 per cent since the crisis started; in the same period the budget deficit will have risen by between 5 per cent and 8 per cent of output. Arithmetic so simple that even a child can understand it: smaller output, smaller revenues, larger deficit. And the corollary: larger output, larger revenues, smaller deficit.
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