Progress column
My Progress column this week was about Ed Miliband's announcement on the 10p tax rate: http://www.progressonline.org.uk/2013/02/14/10p-and-the-mansion-tax/
posted by Luke Akehurst at 10:45 am
Friday, February 15, 2013
About Me
- Name: Luke Akehurst
- Location: North Durham, County Durham, United Kingdom
Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
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Page 439: Brown’s budget (his last)
Andrew Rawnsley:
“In the New Year, he returned to the idea…The officials again cautioned that abolishing the 10p band would create many losers. Livermore maintained his opposition. Balls, a much more powerful figure at the court of Brown now flipped in support”
(Interviews, Treasury officials)
(The End of the Party).
A very squalid business indeed as Luke rigtly points out. Sadly, by no means the only example!
2:44 pm, February 18, 2013
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