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Here are three of them.? If the Euro collapses that is the best moment for George Osborne to come forward with radical and emergency reforms: Agree 80%, Disagree 12%? The truth is that the Coalition has failed to cut public spending sufficiently (Simon Heffer): Agree 70%, Disagree 22% ? The Chancellor should have abolished the 50p tax band: Agree 53%, Disagree 36%10.21am: Earlier I said that there wasn't any polling on the autumn statement. (See 8.50am.) Well, there is now. YouGov have just posted a poll. Here's a commentary on the key findings by Anthony Wells and here are the tables with all the figures (pdf). Wells says voters are "negative about the Government's handling of the economy and George Osborne's performance as Chancellor, but prefer Osborne to Ed Balls, and think Labour would be doing even worse".
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