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Faisal Islam: This Budget was micro and that was deliberate

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It was not a mini Budget, but it was rather small. It might be called the "micro Budget".

Small does not necessarily mean bad, but it clearly falls short of radical action to create a promised new economic model.

A new "theory of growth" was not unveiled as promised by the prime minister Andy Burnham.

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