LONDON: British finance minister George Osborne turned to the Bank of England to do more to help spur the country's stagnant economy as he announced a halving of this year's growth forecast.
In an annual budget statement peppered with catcalls from opposition politicians, Osborne said the central bank's inflation target would remain at 2% a year but that that was not enough.
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