>>There was a reasonable belief that the boom/bust cycle, enabled by successive governments the UK suffered post WW2 had been seen off. The Tories now admit that it was Tony Barber's boom post 71/2 that begat the later inflation. A crisis seeded by banking failure across the west was another thing.
Meh. Hiding billions of public spending from the 'debt list' by using PFI was disingenuous way of masking Brown breaking his 'fiscal rules'.
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