Acting Labour Party Leader Harriet Harman said George Osborne's Budget would 'stifle growth'
12 April 2012
Chancellor George Osborne's first Budget will "throw people out of work" and stifle growth, acting Labour leader Harriet Harman claimed.
The financial statement was a "Tory Budget", she said, arguing that the Liberal Democrat elements of the coalition Government had "always fought against" many of the measures introduced by Mr Osborne.
Faced with fierce heckling as she responded to Mr Osborne's statement in the Commons, Ms Harman told Government MPs to "read the book" of Budget statistics, telling them growth would be lower as a result of the measures.
She said: "It's the same old Tories."
