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Budget 2016: Just tear it up and try again
John McDonnell tells George Osborne to drop ‘unfair’ Budget

BLUNDERING George Osborne was told to tear up his entire Budget yesterday after being forced into a humiliating climbdown over cuts to disability benefits amid Tory chaos.

The Chancellor’s U-turn over vicious plans to slash personal independence payments (PIP) for the disabled — which even Tory welfare axeman Iain Duncan Smith branded “unfair” — has blown another £4 billion hole in a budget which already included £3.5bn of unspecific spending cuts.

Now he faces calls to take the unprecedented step of withdrawing the Budget and starting again less than a week after presenting it to Parliament.

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