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What the budget means to you

Updated on 12 March 2008

By Rags Martel

Will today's budget speech really affect the wealth of the average British person in any significant way?

Budget day is a key moment in the parliamentary calendar. And the paraphernalia of budget day is well known - the red box, the speech, the media carnival - but is this all a little out of date?

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