Tories attack Brown tax 'climbdown'
Updated on 23 April 2008
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.
