Economic agenda: Four questions Brown must answer

  • Robert Chote

Published on 10 August 2004

Like the discovery that Britain's railways are as vulnerable to the sun as to wet leaves or the wrong sort of snow, reports that Gordon Brown has warned Cabinet ministers to expect tough public spending negotiations should hardly come as a surprise.

Like the discovery that Britain's railways are as vulnerable to the sun as to wet leaves or the wrong sort of snow, reports that Gordon Brown has warned Cabinet ministers to expect tough public spending negotiations should hardly come as a surprise.

    Authors

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    Robert Chote

    Comment details

    DOI
    10.1920/co.ifs.2024.1091
    Publisher
    Daily Telegraph

    Suggested citation

    Chote, R. (2004). Economic agenda: Four questions Brown must answer [Comment] Daily Telegraph. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/economic-agenda-four-questions-brown-must-answer (accessed: 4 December 2024).

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