Empty Box of Budget Tricks; Budget Special: No Big Sweeteners and No Big Shocks As Brown Prepares for Election; Safety-First Chancellor Left Nothing to Chance
Evening Times › March 19, 2004
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Summary
A BUDGET with no big sweeteners and no big shocks. The unions and the CBI both smiled and commentators were talking about whisky stamps rather than income tax.
Gordon Brown's record-breaking eighth Budget revealed a Chancellor with an election on his mind.See the full content of this document
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Empty Box of Budget Tricks; Budget Special: No Big Sweeteners and No Big Shocks As Brown Prepares for Election; Safety-First Chancellor Left Nothing to Chance
Mr Brown said he was going to deliver a Budget that would "lock in for Great Britain an economic stability that can and will endure".
It was to have been the last meaningful Budget before any lollipops are handed out in next year...See the full content of this document
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