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A bravura performance

THE Chancellor has announced his immediate stimulus package: billions of pounds to be spent before the end of March next year. It’s caught his opponents on the hop because what he’s doing is exactly what they had demanded, but with an urgency and directness they didn’t think possible. For a Government that has looked uncertain and incompetent, this was a

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