In the Netherlands, the government's deregulation policy is co-ordinated by an independent body, but Mr Brown has decided to give that responsibility to the Cabinet Office.

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Margaret Thatcher reversed Britain's devastating decline with tax cuts, deregulation and a policy of sound money, which was exactly how Ronald Reagan fought off the weak-dollar malaise of the 1970s.

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But Enron is closely associated both with the Bush White House and with the Republicans' alleged enthusiasm for energy deregulation, a policy which is widely (though wrongly) held by Californian voters to have caused the electricity mess in the first place.

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Airline deregulation under Carter was a microeconomic policy.

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What my point is -- and this is a point that was made I think even today by AP in a fact check -- is that even if you agree with Republican policy proposals aimed at deregulation, there is no case to be made that if enacted those proposals would result in an immediate, positive impact on the economy or in job creation.

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But in the long term, India has no option but to stick to deregulation as it had done with the credit policy announced before last year's election.

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Deregulation was also central to the U.S. energy policy Gingrich advocated.

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All his most cherished plans reform of road-building, post-office privatisation, deregulation of services, a rethink of Japan's outdated security policy, attempts to tackle the huge budget deficit have been eviscerated by his own side.

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The former gave their academic blessing by telling everyone that markets were rational and efficient and latter responded with deregulation of the financial industry and an increasingly hands-off approach to economic policy.

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Both Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers explain to him that the globalization and deregulation of finance that they helped to bring about when they were in government was a historical inevitability, not a policy choice.

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