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Gordon Brown tours recession hit Britain; Derby:EXTGordon Brown at railway station, shaking hands with train passengersBack View Train passenger taking picture of Brown on mobile phoneTRACKING SHOT as along station platform behind Brown INT TRAINBrown and aide seated on trainBrown being wired up for interview as comments SOT- I must apologise to passengers, they came on train for ordinary journey then sits with Bradby for interview Bradby Q: was VAT cut waste of money?Gordon Brown reply SOT- don't agree / we've injected lot of money into economy Bradby Q: what difference does 2.5% make?Gordon Brown reply SOT- difference it makes is that people have more money in their pocket at end of month because they're paying less VAT Bradby Q: on boom always being followed by bust?Gordon Brown reply SOT- this is unique global financial crisis / this is not exclusive British problem... (interrupted by Bradby)- the British problem of past was that we always had inflation then had to raise interest rates, then economy went into recession - that is not what has happened