Pre-Budget Report 2005 - Preview

This year’s Pre-Budget Report on December 5th will be an uncomfortable experience for Gordon Brown. Having been proved right on the economy last year, this time he will have to admit he has got it hopelessly wrong. Not only has GDP grown at little more than half the rate he predicted in the March 2005 Budget, but his crusade to improve productivity has failed spectacularly.

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