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Budget 2007

April 2009

  • Larry Elliott, economics editor

    Budget 2007: the overweening pride that came before calamitous fall

    Larry Elliott, economics editor

    Larry Elliott: One thing is certain: the speech will bear little resemblance to that delivered by Gordon Brown just over two years ago

30 March 2007

  • Brown: no more cash for child poverty

    · Budget leaves 800,000 youngsters still affected
    · Chancellor defends use of tax credits

25 March 2007

  • Heather Stewart

    Heather Stewart's business comment
    Gordon's gift: some smoke, all mirrors

    Heather Stewart

    The Budget headlines are all about the tax cuts, but some careful watchers are accusing the Chancellor of sleight of hand, writes Heather Stewart.

  • Ruth Sunderland's business comment
    Brown's legacy looks good - at least on the surface

    Ruth Sunderland

    Ruth Sunderland: Gordon Brown's swansong Budget was meant to be a political tour de force but ended up as a con trick.

  • Education sums don't add up

    Gordon Brown's aspiration to match spending on state school pupils with the £8,000 a head a year enjoyed by schools in the private sector is a distant dream, if the education spending plans announced in last week's Budget are anything to go by.

24 March 2007

  • Brown 'misled on pensions cost'

    The government told its own backbenchers that the cost of bailing out 125,000 workers who lost their pensions was a quarter of the £8bn stated in the budget on Wednesday.

23 March 2007

  • Half of voters believe budget makes them worse off, says poll

    Almost half of all voters believe that they will be worse off as a result of the budget, despite a 2p cut in the basic rate of income tax, according to an opinion poll today.

  • Simon Hoggart

    Simon Hoggart's sketch
    Gordon: the polymath, philosopher, and forgiver

    Simon Hoggart
    Simon Hoggart: Gordon Brown wasn't in to hear the blast of sarcastic invective from his Tory shadow, George Osborne. But it didn't matter. He had already given the world his first pre-premiership budget interview. What we got was Gordon, Man of a Thousand Faces.

    • Budget was fair to people, says Brown

    • Red book points to new priorities for PM-in-waiting

    • That 2p off income tax is a one-day wonder that comes at a high price

      Polly Toynbee

22 March 2007

  • I bear no grudges, claims Brown

  • David Walker

    The bigger picture

    David Walker

  • Package to lift 200,000 children out of poverty is welcomed but more investment is vital, say family groups

  • Brown into the limelight with a budget aimed at Cameron

  • Michael White's political briefing
    He may have seen off Dave 'n' George, but they'll be back

    Michael White

  • Suddenly a new guise: actor and showman. Signs of Stalinism? Certainly not comrades

    Jonathan Freedland

  • For richer, for poorer

  • Tame Lyons

  • Green action was promised 10 years ago

    David Adam
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