The Tories struggled to land a killer blow against Alistair Darling's pre-election Budget today as two opinion polls suggested that Labour could yet scrape a fourth term in power.
He also won qualified praise from the respected Institute of Fiscal Studies, which congratulated Mr Darling in its post-Budget analysis for having spurned pre-election giveaways – although it questioned some of his claims on future government cost savings and warned that future spending cuts would have to be drastic.
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