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‘New Deal’ for UK

Gordon Brown is urging senior colleagues to increase expenditure on big capital project, such as Crossrail and the London Olympics.

The plan is modelled on Franklin Roosevelt’s 1930s ‘New Deal’. (Source Sunday Times 19 October 2008)

Chancellor Alistair Darling has said the Treasury intends to fast-track public spending on building projects such as schools and hospitals. (Source Daily Telegraph 18 October 2008)