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Faisal Islam: The 10-year plan will have to fill the gaps from this 'micro budget'

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By Faisal Islam Verified
| MSN Verified
It was not a mini Budget, but it was rather small. It might be called the "micro Budget". Small does not necessarily mean bad, but it clearly falls short of radical action to create a promised new economic model. A new "theory of growth" was not unveiled as promised by the prime minister Andy Burnham. It was preamble, roadmap, consultation, perhaps the starter to the main course, which appears to be the PM's 10-year plan next month.
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Badr: Building Pakistan’s Defence Industry Beyond Arms Deals

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By Faisal Islam Verified
| The Friday Times Verified
A couple of months ago I argued in these pages that the Mecca defence pact was a fine photograph and not much more, a roof promised before anyone had thought to pour a foundation. In a second piece I tried to say what that foundation would have to be. Factories, laboratories, engineers, a shared technical language, and above all a generation educated well enough to build the things these countries cannot presently buy without someone else’s permission.
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Healey's budget needs to sustain the stronger economy through gathering clouds

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By Faisal Islam Verified
| MSN Verified
There have been almost no Budget leaks. The chancellor's aides are using intelligence-style security measures to guard its secrets: the Budget has been split into "compartments" with very few given access to all of them. There are codenames. The IT has been locked down and ministers viewing the plans have to sign a digital promise not to brief media. Such security is a response to the feeling that speculation around the last Budget, sometimes informed by insiders, was economically destabilising.
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