This Pre-Budget Report was vintage Gordon Brown - a blizzard of statistics and a flurry of measures and announcements, most of them old, but without many substantive changes. The one noteworthy feature was that, despite raising some £2 billion in extra taxes, the Chancellor again increased his forecasts for public borrowing.
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