内容摘要：Three trends have combined to make it a particularly difficult year to be in power.

Three trends have combined to make it a particularly difficult year to be in power.

"The worrying reverberations of the Budget are clear to see in our survey data," Ms Haviland said."Businesses confidence has slumped in a pressure cooker of rising costs and taxes."

A Treasury spokesperson said: "We delivered a once-in-a-parliament Budget to wipe the slate clean and deliver the stability businesses so desperately need."We have ensured more than half of employers will either see a cut or no change in their National Insurance bills."We are bringing back political and financial stability, creating the conditions for economic growth through investment and reform," the spokesperson added.

Civil service roles are to be relocated from London to north-east England.The Cabinet Office said it would aim to move about 12,000 roles to Tyneside, Darlington and 11 other areas from the capital.

More than 32,100 full-time equivalent roles are already based in the North East, with a significant part of the Treasury based in Darlington.

The Cabinet Office said it was keen to create jobs "outside London".She has now been paired with Zena Meacham, who lives in Stourport-on-Severn.

"She is really stepping up to the mark and giving me my independence back," her new owner said.Ms Meacham was born with retinoblastoma and is "totally blind" but she said the new addition to her family had transformed her life.

"Yukiko is my third guide dog and she's no different from my last two dogs - you wouldn't be able to tell that she's travelled from Japan," she added."Now that I’ve got Yukiko, or Kiko as we call her, I'm able to get the bus into Stourport, without having to rely on friends or my husband to take me."