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westminster. our political correspondent leila nathoo is in westminster central lobby. give us more of the headlines? i think there were two aspects we heard today, one was the statement jeremy hunt outline, but the other was the independent forecast of the economic picture from the office for budget responsibility. it is worth starting there. the backdrop to this is looking pretty bleak. we are talking about a recession, the obr confirming we are in recession by forecasting growth will come back but forecasts have that built in uncertainty, predicting a huge fall in living standards for everybody. falls in disposable income and a hugely high tax burden compared to what has come before. that is the bleak economic picture against which jeremy hunt was delivering the statement. rememberthe jeremy hunt was delivering the statement. remember the ground he was preparing for this ahead of time, talking about horrible decisions, eye watering, painful

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