UK PRESS: Alistair Darling will announce which government departments
will be forced to bear the initial burden of cutting borrowing on
Wednesday, in a Budget designed to add clarity and credibility to the
government’s deficit reduction plan, the FT reports. To counter the
widespread view Labour’s heart is not in the painful business of cutting
the deficit, the Chancellor will reveal where he intends to make
savings in Whitehall costs after 2011, the paper says.