Building Brown's Future

The shelves of Whitehall groan under the weight of policy reviews which have been discarded and plans never enacted. Today, Gordon Brown is to launch his a new policy blueprint, Building Britain's Future, which will be added to their number.



Crash Gordon's main hope is that economic growth will see his political recovery. The upshot, however, is that the country is now in a severe fiscal crisis, the severity of which seems, from his public utterances, to have eluded him. In 2010 British public sector borrowing will reach £175 billion and we are in a fiscal hole that the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said is worse than the late 1970s.