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1 in 100 babies born between 1999 and 2003 was a Gordon Brown baby

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In 1999 , Brown introduced the Working Families’ Tax Credit ( WFTC ), decreasing families’ tax bills based on household income, number of children, and number of hours worked.

In 2008 , three economists published an IFS paper in which they identified that the introduction of WFTC had caused an extra 45,000 babies to be born between 1999 and 2003 .

Over 1 in 100 babies born over those four years was a Gordon Brown baby.