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From Prudence to Profligacy: How Gordon Brown Undermined Britain's Public Finances

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Having begun by pursuing an extremely conservative fiscal policy during the late 1990s, Gordon Brown, as Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Prime Minister, presided over a massive expansion in public spending to improve public services. This expansion of spending was justifiable in many ways, given poor investment in public services during the Thatcher-Major years. But it was arguably not sufficiently financed through taxation, and direct taxation in particular. The result was a run up of public deficits prior to the current financial and economic crisis, which broke the government's own fiscal rules. This in turn prepared the way for a substantial deterioration in public finances when the current crisis broke, a deterioration which may take years, if not decades to set right.
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Nicholas Sowels. From Prudence to Profligacy: How Gordon Brown Undermined Britain's Public Finances. Observatoire de la société britannique, 2011, 10, pp.77--93. ⟨10.4000/osb.1136⟩. ⟨hal-01332066⟩

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