National IFA firm Inter-Alliance's Charles Ansdell responds to Gordon Brown's Pre-Budget speech with...
National IFA firm Inter-Alliance's Charles Ansdell responds to Gordon Brown's Pre-Budget speech with disappointment rather than excitement, and offers a quick breakdown on the issues that matter. Brown's Borrowing bad for Business, but pensions are safe Gordon Brown announced a borrowing pre-budget statement to boost public infrastructure like the NHS and public services generally. The chancellor made the pre-budget against a weakening economic outlook, a certain level of worker discontent over pay, CBI resistance to any additional tax burden. Indeed, in a barbed remark agains...
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