Budget 2010: What Vince Cable and others had to say...

Writing in the Guardian, business secretary Vince Cable says the impact of yesterday's Budget will be "painful".

Vince Cable Guardian.co.uk The emergency Budget will be painful. "The cuts in spending and the increases in tax will be felt by everyone, resented by some but understood, I think, by most. "Our coalition Government is united in accepting that its first duty is to clean up the fiscal mess it inherited. Not any old mess but a great, steaming pile of manure. Someone has to remove it. We can't just hide the smell beneath the perfume of optimistic forecasts or rely on natural decay. "It should be no surprise that this is such a tough Budget. Last summer, in pamphlets and speeches, Nick ...