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Times Online - Government’s secret fears over housing market exposed by minister gaffe

Gordon Brown’s housing minister exposed the Government’s fears over the falling housing market today when she accidentally left in view a top-secret report as she walked into No 10.

Caroline Flint’s briefing note conceded that house prices would fall by 5 to 10 per cent “at best” this year and that “we can’t know how bad it will get”.

The detailed document carried into Downing Street for the weekly Cabinet session admitted that home building was also “stalling”, in a bleak assessment of UK economic prospects.

They have a picture. She’s just holding the darned thing in one hand at her side as she walks up a sidewalk.

Oh well, bad news for Britons, but good news for me!