UK PM rules out giveaways

October 01, 2007

In a speech at the Reuters headquarters in London alongside former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan and British finance minister Alistair Darling, Brown said his government would not relax its fiscal discipline for short-term gain. He then indicated his support for plans to build a 16 billion pound ($32 billion) rail link across London, which would be one of Britain's biggest-ever building projects.