Brown names date for Budget

The UK's Budget will take place in two weeks, Gordon Brown confirmed today as he made a key speech pledging to pull the economy through the “storm” of recession.

The March 24 date will make a May 6 General Election even more likely.

Mr Brown was speaking at Thomson Reuters in Canary Wharf, in London’s Docklands, the venue where Tory leader David Cameron attacked Labour’s record on the economy last week.