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Budget 2003 Preview

Gordon Brown’s seventh Budget on April 9th will be his most challenging yet. For the second time in six months he will have to admit that his previous forecasts for the economy were too optimistic and that, if left unchecked, public borrowing will therefore be higher he previously predicted.

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