Rabble-rouser and bruiser-in-chief Charles Clarke has taken a hatchet to the government’s highly political Pre-Budget Report. Writing on his blog, Clarke argues:
‘He (Brown) felt that the main purpose of this pre-election Pre-Budget Report was to recycle his old political dividing lines. This weakness can only come from fear of discussion of our past failures and fear that it is too dangerous to set out our future plans.
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