British Finance Minister Gordon Brown

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Series Details 25/02/99, Volume 5, Number 08
Publication Date 25/02/1999
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Date: 25/02/1999

has confirmed that a cabinet decision whether to join the euro area should be taken shortly after the UK's next general election, which must be held by mid-2002. Brown's comments followed the publication by the government of its plan to ready the UK for possible membership of the single currency bloc.

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