David Cameron VS Nick Clegg Austerity Sets Benchmark for G-20 Summit

David Cameron VS Nick Clegg Austerity Sets Benchmark for G-20 Summit

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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron is showing the way on fiscal austerity as he attends his first summit of world leaders today. Whether his path leads to recovery or another recession is driving a transatlantic dispute that will dominate the talks in Canada.

Chastened by the Greek crisis, Cameron's six-week old government this week proposed Britain's biggest round of budget cuts since World War II to reduce a deficit worth 11 percent of gross domestic product, the largest in the Group of 20.

European policy makers fear failure to patch up public finances now risks reviving a bond market selloff that required a bailout for Greece last month, while President Barack Obama says deficit reduction could hurt economic growth and employment. The U.K. presents a test case for G-20 politicians as they argue how quickly to act.

"This is going to be one of the biggest experiments, and the U.S. can sit and watch and look to see what happens to the U.K. output data, which I suspect is about to collapse," David Blanchflower, a former Bank of England policy maker, said in a radio interview with Tom Keene on "Bloomberg Surveillance."

Cameron, Obama and colleagues from the Group of Eight meet today in Huntsville, Ontario, and join their G-20 counterparts tomorrow in Toronto. Leaders last year anointed the enlarged group as the main forum for global economic coordination.

At Odds

Just as they split on how much to spend fighting the global credit crisis, governments are now at odds over when to start trimming a G-20 debt load that the International Monetary Fund estimates will average 110 percent of GDP in 2015.

While China's decision to allow a more flexible yuan may cool discussions over exchange rates, divisions also exist over what buffers banks should introduce to avoid future crises and how to force them to cover the cost of a potential rescue.

"Consensus among the G-20 has been the hallmark of prior summits and the source of its effectiveness," said Daniel Price, who organized the November 2008 G-20 summit for former President George W. Bush. "That consensus may be fragmenting."

Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, began June 22 with an emergency budget that imposed a levy on banks, raised the sales tax and slashed spending. The plan, alongside measures proposed by the prior government, will generate 113 billion pounds ($168 billion) of deficit cuts, 15 percent of the 737 billion-pound budget foreseen for 2015, the Treasury said.

Market Endorsement

Cameron's plan this week won the endorsement of bond investors and credit rating companies. Fitch Ratings said the "ambitious" budget ensured Britain would keep its AAA credit rating, while Moody's Investors Service said the U.K.'s budget is "supportive" of the top credit level.

U.K. gilts gained for a fourth day yesterday. The 10-year gilt yield fell 5 basis points, or 0.05 percentage point, to 3.39 percent, after touching 3.38 percent, the lowest level since Oct. 13. The 4.75 percent security maturing in March 2020 rose 4 pounds per 1,000-pound ($1,499) face amount, to 111.8.

Sterling traded at 82.48 pence per euro, from 82.30 pence yesterday. It climbed earlier to 81.81 pence, the first time it traded stronger than 82 pence since Nov. 12, 2008. The pound rose 0.2 percent to $1.4992, from $1.4957.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the U.K. could have been the next victim of a "market panic" sweeping Europe if the government had not acted. Such concerns may have driven up local borrowing costs for companies such as Tesco Plc, the U.K.'s biggest retailer, and GlaxoSmithKline Plc.

'False Choice'

Osborne's Labour predecessor, Alistair Darling, yesterday told a Bloomberg Link conference in London that if you "take all this money out of the economy" its recovery may stumble. Osborne dismisses the view that nations can't reduce deficits and support growth in lockstep as presenting a "false choice."

"The crisis in the euro-zone shows that unless we deal with our debts there will be no growth," he said. "A credible plan to cut our budget deficit goes hand in hand with a steady and sustained recovery."

"The assertion that fiscal tightening reduces growth is far from proven," said Ben Broadbent, an economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in London, who says budget cuts can be offset by looser monetary conditions such as a falling exchange rate. He predicts the U.K. will expand 3.1 percent next year compared with the 2.3 percent forecast of the Office for Budget Responsibility.

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