Ferdinand Mount

What shape is the Treasury in now?

After the turmoil of the past 20 years, the department looks as powerful as it was at the start, says Howard Davies

H.M. Treasury. [Alamy]

  • The Chancellors: Steering the British Economy in Crisis Times

    Howard Davies

    Polity, pp. 248, £15

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