Sentences with phrase «aim of balancing the budget»

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Instead of a rush to balance the budget, he assumed the government aimed to cover all its expenses with the exception of interest payments, or a «structural balance.»

This will be accomplished with a further # 30 billion of spending cuts with the aim of generating a balanced budget by 2017 - 2018 and a surplus in 2018 - 2019.

Osborne has gone a step further than the Liberal Democrats and Labour by swapping his aim of a current budget surplus, which excludes investment spending, to an overall budget balance.