Politics

摘要

George Osborne, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, was forced to admit that the government would not meet its target of eliminating the structural budget deficit by 2014-15, and would have to make further austerity cuts after the next general election. The announcement came after the Office for Budget Responsibility, an independent statutory forecaster, slashed its growth projections for Britain. A day later hundreds of thousands of public-sector workers went on strike, protesting against pension reforms.