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| | The Observer | Business | Much to do about the bleedin' obvious |
 | | And the institution that has encouraged this, as Sir Edward George implicitly acknowledged, is the Chancellor's pride and joy, the innovation that most commentators have picked out as his place, so far, in history: the MPC. |
 | | Gordon Brown is now the longest serving Chancellor since Nicholas Vansittart (1812 to 1825) - a contemporary of William Wordsworth's but whose reputation, as I pointed out a few months ago, has been wandering lonely as a cloud for some time. |
 | | The MPC and 'stability' are only the backdrop to what one suspects is the monument Brown hopes for, namely a dramatic lifting of public sector standards and services that would remind people of the achievements of the Attlee government. |
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