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Tue 10 Oct 2009Brown's plan to sell assets meets strong disapproval
BRITISH PRIME minister Gordon Brown’s plans, announced yesterday, to sell off billions worth of state assets to reduce the United Kingdom’s rapidly growing public debt have run into strong opposition. There have also been suggestions that some of the assets will not find buyers.
In a speech in London, Mr Brown said the Tote betting chain, the London-Paris high-speed rail-line and the Dartford road tunnel near London could raise £3 billion, while the sale of local authority-owned land could raise £13 billion more.
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