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By Gavin Esler
Presenter, BBC Newsnight
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Presented by Gavin Esler
Budget lookahead
Tomorrow is Gordon Brown's big day - his last budget as Chancellor of the Exchequer before he becomes, most of Westminster seems to think, the next Prime Minister. But is he fit for the top job? Is he - as a former top civil servant put it - guilty of a neo-Stalinist managerial style? We'll assess the man in Number 11, and Stephanie will have some thoughts on tomorrow's Budget.
Passports
10,000 British passports were issued as a result of fraudulent applications last year alone, the Home Office confessed today. No that's not a typo. 10,000. In one year. Think about it. Peter Marshall runs the rule over the latest Home Office farce.
Iraq
And Baghdad, four years after the invasion. Meet Isam Rasheedon, who's made a film for us about life in the Sunni district of Adamiyah where he lives, right at the heart of the civil war.
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