Labour calls for Budget to put Growth and Jobs first  

14 March 2011   £2billion bank bonus tax to create 110,000 new jobs   Labour is today setting out the key tests for George Osborne's Budget next week and calling for immediate action to boost jobs and growth in the economy and to help hard-pressed families with the rising cost of living.     In a joint press conference this morning Labour leader Ed Miliband and shadow chancellor Ed Balls said the Conservative-led government must think again on the speed and scale of cuts which go too deep and too fast, are choking off growth, increasing unemployment and making it harder to reduce the deficit in the long term.     They called on David Cameron and George Osborne to repeat last year's bank bonus tax to support the jobs and growth Britain badly needs in 2011.     With the £2 billion that could be raised this year from repeating the bank bonus tax, Labour says the government...