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Wednesday 08 July 2015 5:09 am

July Budget 2015: Can you tell the difference between George Osborne and Gordon Brown?

By: James Nickerson

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It's Budget day again today- and if it all seems a bit repetitive to you, spare a thought for George Osborne, who will be enduring his twelfth. Although, admittedly, it'll be the first time he hasn't had another party to please.
 
But are they really all the same at heart? We've trawled through George Osborne and Gordon Brown's first-ever Budget speeches – that's in 1997 for Brown, and 2010 for Osborne – to see whether their policies are poles apart or surprisingly similar.
 
Yes, they're from opposite ends of the political spectrum – but can you tell the difference between Osborne's oratory and Brown's blustering? Take our quiz below.
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