Today in Politics: is Brown rewriting history?
independent.co.uk     15-May-2008            

by Andrew Grice Gordon Brown is trying to make a virtue out of his remarkable U-turn over the 10p tax rate. Interviewed on BBC's Today programme this morning, he argued that the £2.7bn tax cut announced on Tuesday was to help Britain survive the global economic downturn as well as to compensate... [read full story]                    


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