Alistair Darling’s third Budget will be hardly recognisable as the last before a general election. With the UK’s budget deficit baring comparison with that of Greece, the markets and credit rating agencies would severely punish any sort of pre-election splurge. Neither would it go down well with an electorate well aware that higher taxes and deep spending cuts already lie ahead.
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