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It’s a date then, Darling
So the pre-Budget report is going to take place in October, our esteemed new chancellor Alistair Darling confirmed to the expectant masses last week.
Moving the PBR forward a few months wasn’t that much of a surprise, as the whole world had been expecting as much after former UK FD Gordon Brown made a ‘cryptic’ reference to an October PBR in parliament.
Well, the whole world except the Treasury grunts that is. Following Brown’s little quip in parliament, TS had called the Treasury up immediately, only to
be told that Brown had merely made a ‘slip of the tongue’ and that no
date for the PBR had been set.
Fast forward a fortnight and guess what, Mr Darling makes a speech
where announces that the PBR will be in, that’s right, October.
Surprise, surprise. TS hopes that the Treasury spin doctors will be a
little more up-to-date on important events in the future or a bit
less disingenuous.
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It WAS a slip of the tongue when Gordon said October - he wasn't meant to be announcing it yet...
Posted by :Mike Truman | August 2, 2007 4:06 PM
Point taken Mike. I think the Treasury was implying that what he said was wrong as a date had not been confirmed....as opposed to he knew the date but didn't mean to say it.
Does that make sense? That's probably confused matters even more - TS'll shut up now.
Posted by :TS | August 2, 2007 4:37 PM