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UK Budget 2007 - Robbing Peter to pay Peter

This was a bold, and indeed a big, Budget. But its impact on the economy will be minimal. It was designed to make a political, rather than an economic, impact, and in that regard it was brilliantly structured to make life extremely difficult for the Conservatives.

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