Dennis Skinner: Bolsover

Dennis Skinner ridiculed Osborne for adding more to the national debt in five years than Labour chancellors had in an entire century.

"The trade deficit is worsening, and the current account deficit has hit a 24-year high," he declared.

"Plan A has failed."

Natalie Bennett: Green leader

"Osborne is continuing the demonstrably false claim that our deficit problems can be blamed on government spending and welfare.

"But what got us into 'this mess' is the fraud, errors and mismanagement of the corrupt and still out-of-control financial sector."

Jonathan Edwards: Carmarthen East and Dinefwr

"Wales has suffered disproportionately as a result of austerity with £1bn wiped from the Welsh economy due to welfare cuts alone.

"Yet astonishingly, Labour are seeking to inherit the Tory mantle of punishing the poor for the mistakes of the 1 per cent by committing to more cuts should they form the next government."

Kelvin Hopkins: Luton North

Kelvin Hopkins accused the Chancellor of overseeing a redistribution of wealth from those who produce it, to those who live off the workers' effort.

For ordinary people, Osborne's policies are a "catalogue of failure," with wages falling by 10 per cent in real terms, and Britain's deficit rising.