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Speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme on Tuesday, Sir Brian said he was "not prepared to comment" on the government's "hypothetical" unpublished plans.

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He compared this hypothetical world to Iain M. Banks’ sci-fi “Culture” novels, where abundance is so extreme that traditional economies disappear.

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A stripped-down hypothetical can illustrate the point: Suppose a married couple has $100,000 in adjusted gross income, and now they want to switch $10,000 from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.

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Lewis later said it had been a "hypothetical" question, and No 10 declined to comment.

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Burnham then criticised journalists for speculating, saying he is "constantly answering hypothetical questions" and claimed MPs in Westminster were "constantly speculating and not putting forward solutions".

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