Full links to articles on pre-Budget statement
Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:00 GMT
CommentsKey points from the pre-Budget report from the Chancellor, Gordon Brown:
Headlines:
- Higher taxes to pay for NHS
- Army and police will receive emergency £150m
- Huge extension of tax credits to make work pay
- 'No one country can insulate itself from a slowdown'
- Stamp duty lifted for deprived areas
- Government admits borrowing will have to rise
- 'Grey voters' have guaranteed £100-a-year increase
- Howard attacks 'failure' to live up to pledges
- Brown tries to keep business sweet
- Tories want war on terror to target Saddam
- Foreign lorries face charges on British roads
- 'A publicly funded NHS is the best for Britain'
- Treasury disagrees with low growth prediction
- Tax credits and CGT cut aid business
- City warns against optimistic forecasts
- Leading article: A welcome rise in funding, but the prescription for the NHS is too conservative
- Anne McElvoy: Mr Brown's vision of the future
- Robert Baker: Money won't improve the NHS
- Simon Carr: Mr Brown was just a sideshow
- Hamish McRae: Can we really have it all?
- Donald Macintyre: Chancellor has the ammunition
- Miles Kington: Forget green shoots
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