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Alexander delivers Lib Dems’ Budget
No 2 keeps ‘better economy’ in his empty yellow suitcase

BUMBLING Lib Dem Chief Treasury Secretary Danny Alexander stunned onlookers yesterday as he presented an “alternative Budget” from an empty yellow suitcase in the Commons chamber.

The bizarre stunt came as Labour shadow chancellor Ed Balls proclaimed that George Osborne had “strutted his final hour upon the stage.”

Only 15 other Lib Dems showed up to see their clueless colleague lay into the Chancellor he had smugly posed for snaps with the day before.

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