The true cost of Darling's cuts
Updated on 24 November 2008
As Alistair Darling launches a package of measures worth £20bn what will be the cost to the British economy?
The chancellor hopes his attack on the economic downturn will soften the blow of what could be a deep recession.
Next year's growth forecasts has been slashed from 2.75 per cent to between minus 0.75 per cent and minus 1.25 per cent, the biggest contraction since records began.
And government borrowing will double to £78bn this year and £118bn next.
Live discussion
Jon Snow is joined by the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Robert Chote, Chief Executive of the Work Foundation Will Hutton and the award-winning British entrepreneur James Caan.
