article_snippet.sent: the late reply said: 'The deficit halved.
article_snippet.sent: When Coalition took office in 2010 the budget deficit had reached more than £150billion – more than 10 per cent of the entire size of the economy.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Balls said Labour would cut the budget deficit still running at £90billion a year – every year.
article_snippet.sent: In fact, in that year, the government spend hundreds of billions of pounds, so of course the money hadn't run out, but there was a large deficit, and we had to get the money down, and we needed to get the money down in a fair way. '
article_snippet.sent: That note that said there is no money left was referring to the fact that us budget deficit was forecast to be bigger than the budget deficit in Greece when I became prime minister.'