Gordon Brown and boom and bust

"I will not allow house prices to get out of control and put at risk the sustainability of the recovery."
Gordon Brown's 1997 Budget Statement

 

"Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past."
Pre-Budget Report, 9th November 1999

 

"Britain does not want a return to boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 21 March 2000

 

"So our approach is to reject the old vicious circle of the...the old boom and bust."
Pre-Budget Report, 8 November 2000

 

"Mr Deputy Speaker we will not return to boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 7 March 2001

 

"As I have said before Mr Deputy Speaker: No return to boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 22 March 2006

 

"And we will never return to the old boom and bust."
Budget Statement, 21 March 2007