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...“Jeremy Hunt and Rachel Reeves are very similar,” Clarke said. “The big difference is that I handed over to Gordon the healthiest economy we had had since the war.”...
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...George ParkerAnd of course, the alternative to the OBR doing the forecast is the Treasury doing the forecast itself, which is what Gordon Brown used to do when he was chancellor....
...“Jeremy is more cautious,” said one person briefed on the discussions....
...Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has already tasked the British Business Bank to think through its design; Labour is proposing a “national wealth fund”....
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...Jeremy Hunt has left a poisoned pill for his successor at the Treasury after the next UK general election, with economists warning that the £20bn tax cuts the chancellor pledged in this week’s Autumn Statement...
...And as Jeremy Hunt recognised, Alistair Darling was one of the great chancellors, who will be remembered as doing the right thing for the country at a time of significant turmoil....
...Homebuying help | UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt looks set to extend help for first-time homebuyers as high interest rates continue....
...I mean, for a long time Rishi Sunak’s been trying to pin Keir Starmer as someone who was an apologist for Jeremy Corbyn and a facilitator of Jeremy Corbyn....
...Troubled waters over oil One striking feature of Jeremy Hunt’s Budget was that he was more preoccupied with the Liberal Democrats than he was the SNP, attacking Ed Davey’s party directly during his speech...
...For all Starmer’s underrated toughness, this is still a party that twice offered Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister....
...As I noted in a column on Jeremy Hunt’s recent Budget, if economic growth had continued on its 1955-2008 trend, GDP per head would now be 39 per cent higher....
...The proposal to axe it completely was set out in an official report into the UK constitution by Gordon Brown, former Labour prime minister....
...Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, on Tuesday pledged a Labour government would aim to borrow only to invest, echoing the fiscal rules of former Labour chancellor Gordon Brown....
...Gordon Gregory, a retired fisherman, describes Starmer as “weak” and “vague”, but adds: “I’ll bet you £1,000 Labour win, it’s 100 per cent nailed on.”...
...But the current system is far superior to what it replaced, which was Gordon Brown cooking the books to justify a massive expansion of state spending on each and every occasion.”...
...Jeremy Hunt described him, rightly, as “one of the great chancellors”....
...Jeremy Hunt, the current Conservative chancellor, said Darling would be remembered as “one of the great chancellors”....
...The tax perk was abolished by Labour chancellor Gordon Brown in 2000....
...But following the global financial crisis Gordon Brown had a good story to tell, too: without the actions he and other governments took, the aftermath could have been worse....
...Gordon Brown in 2010, John Major in 1997 and Alec Douglas-Home in 1964 all held on until the last possible minute....
...colours, make it food-themed, linen and suitable for the beach. matchesfashion.com HexClad 25cm hybrid pan, £114.99From a US brand recently launched in the UK (and dubbed the “Rolls-Royce of pans” by Gordon...
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