LONDON: British finance minister George Osborne (pic) said he would announce deeper cuts to public spending this week in order to protect his plan to eliminate the budget deficit from a weakening of the economy.
In a newspaper article published yesterday, Osborne warned that China’s slowdown, the oil price fall, interest rate changes in some countries and political instability in the Middle East meant the world was facing its most uncertain time since the financial crisis.
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