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Page last updated at 06:44 GMT, Thursday, 23 April 2009 07:44 UK

Darling: Economy will recover

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The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, has defended his plan to increase tax for those earning over £150,000.

Speaking to the BBC the day after the Budget, he said extraordinary times required extraordinary measures.

But Mr Darling insisted that the UK economy would recover.

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