UK PRESS: UK businessmen want immediate cuts in public spending and
believe the Conservatives have better economic policies than Labour,
according to an eve-of-Budget survey for The Independent. The ComRes
poll of 185 business leaders will increase the pressure on Alistair
Darling to announce detailed cuts in next week’s Budget, the paper says.
Only 28 per cent support the Chancellor’s view that immediate cuts would
jeopardise economic recovery, while 72 per cent endorse the Tory
Opposition’s call for cuts to start this year to reduce Britain’s
stg 178bn public deficit.