The Independent - London, February 25th, 1997
Tomorrow, Gordon Brown will set an inflation target at least as tough as the the Government's own projection of 2.5 per cent. Although his speech will also lay out some important reforms of the Bank of England and the Treasury, once again this will be essentially Iron Shadow Chancellor Brown. We've had fiscally austere Gordon Brown, pledged to maintain for two years the awesomely difficult limits on public spending laid down by Kenneth Clarke. Now it's the turn of monetarily ultra-prudent Gordon Brown pledging Labour to a counter-inflation record at least as good as the Tories' now, and signif...
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