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Tories attack Brown tax 'climbdown'
Tories attack Brown tax 'climbdown'
Last Modified: 23 Apr 2008
By:
Gary Gibbon
Conservative leader David Cameron attacks Gordon Brown's plan to compensate people hit by the abolition of the 10p tax rate.
"A loser, not a leader" - David Cameron's description of Gordon Brown today as the prime minister defended the government's plans to compensate people paying more tax as a result of the abolition of the 10p rate.
The Tory leader said he had presided over a "humiliating climbdown" ahead of a possible Commons defeat next week over the issue.
After the announcement, Labour critics called off their rebellion.
More than five million people, many of them low-paid workers, faced cuts in their pay packet this month because of the scrapping of the 10p rate.
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