
29/11/2011
Sean Curran and the BBC's parliamentary team report as the Chancellor confirms UK economic growth will be lower and borrowing higher and imposes a fresh cap on public sector pay.
The Chancellor announces public sector pay rises will be capped for a further two years in his Autumn Statement.
George Osborne also confirms that UK economic growth will be lower, and borrowing higher, than was forecast during the Budget in March.
The Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, says the Government's economic strategy has gone "catastrophically wrong".
A transport minister says the law needs to change to tackle an "epidemic" of metal thefts.
And the Foreign Secretary promises to respond "robustly" as Iranian protesters, in Tehran, storm the British embassy.
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