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How will UK reduce its deficit?

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The government will have to start "cutting costs" as it deals with the effects of the recession, Chancellor Alistair Darling is expected to say. John Wraith, of RBC Capital Markets, discusses government forecasts that public borrowing in 2009 will reach £175bn.

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