Prudence said...

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http://archive.treasury.gov.uk/pub/html/budget97/chxstat.html#hous
THE CHANCELLOR'S 1997 BUDGET SPEECH

Hmm, they made that difficult to find...

I can see why !

182 : I will not allow house prices to get out of control...

186 : The timing of my measure should help to avoid a return to the conditions of the 1980s where the failure to take early action guaranteed worse problems later on....

I bet those words taste pretty awful today....