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.

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Robert Chote

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Daily Telegraph

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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 July 2024).

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