Four questions Brown must answer

  • Robert Chote

Published on 10 August 2003

Like the discovery that British 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 haradly come as a surprise.

Like the discovery that British 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 haradly come as a surprise.

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Robert Chote

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IFS

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Chote, R. (2003). Four questions Brown must answer [Comment] IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/articles/four-questions-brown-must-answer (accessed: 16 April 2024).

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