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wipe the slate clean
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see under clean slate .Example Sentences
We delivered a once-in-a-Parliament budget to wipe the slate clean and deliver the stability businesses need, laying the foundations for economic growth.
But a Treasury spokesperson said the Budgetary measures were to "wipe the slate clean" and deliver stability to businesses.
The Guardian suggests she will tell business leaders that they have offered "no alternative" to her plans, and that it was necessary to "wipe the slate clean" following the General Election.
"This is the Budget that is needed to wipe the slate clean and to put our public finances on a firm trajectory," she said.
This Budget will “wipe the slate clean on the fiscal fiction” of the previous government, sources suggest to me.
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