Brown makes further recommendations

Gordon Brown always has the air of someone who believes he could do another man's job better than he...

Gordon Brown always has the air of someone who believes he could do another man's job better than he can. Tony Blair would no doubt be the first to testify to that. Now Bank of England governor Mervyn King can be added to the list. During a recent speech to the Institute of Directors in London, Brown gave a strong signal that he believes the time is right for another increase in UK interest rates. "I can assure you that we will put stability first, now and in the future, and that we will never make the mistakes of the late 1980s and early 1990s when monetary disciplines lapsed and were fo...