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The gamble for growth

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The UK Is a Risky Place

There is historical precedent that this is probably not going to solve the UK's economic woes. Nigel Lawson and his big 1988 tax cutting budget, but it was of course Anthony Barbara in 1970,. Ted Heath chancely, who came in with a dash for growth, which he has very similar rhetoric and approach to this. And it all fell apart a couple of years later because you got that sugar rush you talked about there of growth, but then it all falling apart.

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