Brown puts squeeze on pay and spending ; Labour conference: Chancellor to warn unions and party rebels FOREIGN Edition

Gordon Brown will deliver an uncompromising warning to trade unions and Labour rebels tomorrow that he will not relax his discipline and expand public spending. Tony Blair underlined his anxieties about the need to deliver on Labour's election promises for better public services at a dinner las...

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Published inIndependent (London, England : 1986)
Main Author Jo Dillon and Colin Brown
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London (UK) Independent Digital News & Media 30.09.2001
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Brown, Gordon
Byers, Stephen
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Summary:Gordon Brown will deliver an uncompromising warning to trade unions and Labour rebels tomorrow that he will not relax his discipline and expand public spending. Tony Blair underlined his anxieties about the need to deliver on Labour's election promises for better public services at a dinner last week with his key ministers, including Stephen Byers, the Transport Secretary, Estelle Morris, the Education Secretary, and Alan Milburn, the Health Secretary. Alan Simpson, the treasurer of the Campaign Group of left-wing Labour MPs, called on the Chancellor to increase spending in his pre- budget report. "We should be increasing spending on special schemes and raising the money through a bond issue to avoid recession getting worse," he said.
ISSN:0951-9467