article_snippet: George Osborne’s pre-election budget next week will be a ‘steady as you go’ exercise.
article_snippet: Above, Chancellor pictured ahead of George Osborne’s pre-election budget last year .
article_snippet: George Osborne’s pre-election budget next week will be a ‘steady as you go’ exercise with the emphasis on sustaining growth and reducing the deficit.
article_snippet: But Chancellor is planning to use a section of Chancellor speech – kept separate from measures agreed by the Coalition – to highlight proposals to ease the income tax burden.
article_snippet: other measures that appear would help Osborne find the £30billion Osborne needs to erase the deficit by the end of the next Parliament in 2019.
article_snippet: Although public borrowing for 2014-15 is expected to come at below the £91billion projected in the autumn statement last December, The Chancellor will have little wriggle room for electoral giveaways.
article_snippet: The Chancellor Liberal Democrat coalition partners are reluctant to allow The Chancellor to use the Budget as a launch-pad for the Tory election campaign.
article_snippet: There is speculation that The Chancellor will use The Chancellor budget to unveil populist measures such as a cut in the duty on beer and wine.
article_snippet: Key tax avoidance and evasion measures to be announced by The Chancellor will include an end to The Chancellorumbrella’ arrangements.
highlights_snippet: Measures would help Chancellor find £30bn needed to erase budget deficit .
  