Brown's Baghdad Budget

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Escalating war costs and overoptimistic GDP estimates mean this is likely to be a budget we'll all w...

Escalating war costs and overoptimistic GDP estimates mean this is likely to be a budget we'll all want to forget, argues Charles Ansdell, Head of Corporate Communications at Inter-Alliance Group PLC. There was a time, a few years ago, when Brown was the City's darling. His "Laissez-Faire" policies and small business boosts made him a favourite of business and consumers alike. But since then, Gordon has proved to be a fair weather Chancellor. In the boom of the late 1990s, Brown could piggyback off the successful Tory policies and enjoy the benefits of a rapidly expanding economy. Fisc...

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