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Lord Healey thinks it may be time for a change (The Herald )

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:12:43 GMT

Lord Healey, the former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, yesterday warned his party that Britain may have reached the point at which the public has decided it wants a change of government.

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Tax boost can't save Darling (Scotsman.com)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:32:31 GMT

ALISTAIR Darling has been warned he still faces an uphill struggle to meet his full-year borrowing target despite bumper oil tax revenues boosting the public coffers last mont

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Weak tax revenue fuels public finance fears (Times Online)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:42:42 GMT

Confirmation that tax revenues are faltering as the economic downturn worsens sparked fresh warnings from the City today that government finances are set to slide far deeper into the red than the Chancellor Alistair Darling has forecast.

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Amendment of the Law (BBC News)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:36:24 GMT

The Amendment of the Law Motion is the general resolution laid before the House by the chancellor of the exchequer to enable the financial changes proposed in the Budget statement to be passed into law.

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Taxing times for rural business margins (Scotsman.com)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:31:25 GMT

IN HIS time as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown stood accused of introducing the most new taxes and changes to fiscal legislation in living memory.

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Homebuyers must not wait for Darling (Daily Express)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:00:00 GMT

SPECULATION that stamp duty payments will be cut or deferred for buyers should be confirmed � or ruled out � in Chancellor Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report at the beginning of October.

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Red Meat (If Sam Tarran Was In Charge)

noreply@blogger.com (Sam Tarran) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:47:00 GMT

The Guardian: In a highly personal attack, the Treasury chief secretary, Yvette Cooper , declares that David Cameron is distracting the attention of voters while sneaking through the "traditional Tory red meat" of tax cuts. And no one wants that. Lord knows why Labour selected Cooper - a repulsive looking woman reputedly hated in her own constituency - to lead their "autumn offensive". Beyond style...

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Jamieson to demand showdown over council tax (News Scotsman)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

LABOUR leadership contender Cathy Jamieson today said her first act if she wins the post will be to demand a meeting with Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling over Scotland's

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Jamieson to demand showdown over council tax (Edinburgh Evening News)

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT

LABOUR leadership contender Cathy Jamieson today said her first act if she wins the post will be to demand a meeting with Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling over Scotland's

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A Question for Yvette Cooper... (Iain Dale's Diary)

noreply@blogger.com (Iain Dale) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:56:00 GMT

I don't profess to be an economics guru, but there's one thing that puzzles me about the government saying that our economy is in a better state than others to withstand the global economic slowdown. If that is so, why has the £ plummeted against the dollar and the euro? Surely if we were in such rude economic health the £ would be rising against the currencies in all these other countries with supposedly...

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Anne Perkins: The reaction to Yvette Cooper's attack on David Cameron puts too much focus on her gender (The Guardian)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:36:10 GMT

Anne Perkins: Yvette Cooper has launched an attack on Tory economic policy, but why does the reaction to this focus on her gender?

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The 364 economists who were wrong about spending (Re-cycle of Life)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:58:18 GMT

I have recently got involved in broadcast debates about whether or not Alistair Darling should increase government borrowing to help ease our way through a recession. It tends to be the defeated Keynesians from decades ago who are wheeled out to put the view that the government should increase borrowing. Increasing government borrowing, they argue, increases spending and keeps the wheels of the economy...

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Fisking Yvette Cooper (Iain Dale's Diary)

noreply@blogger.com (Iain Dale) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:39:00 GMT

Labour has a problem. Whenever it launches a premeditated attack on David Cameron it never quite seems to work. Remember the Chameleon, or the Toff attack? They both backfired. Today Yvette Cooper launched a new attack on "Cameronomics". She wrote a piece in The Guardian, which the paper then puffed in its news pages. I always enjoy Yvette Cooper's TV appearances as I can feel the extra Conservative...

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David Cameron would be 'destructive' for British economy Yvette Cooper claims (The Telegraph)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:11:58 GMT

David Cameron would be "destructive" for Britain's economy if elected Prime Minister Government minister warns.

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David Cameron would be disaster for economy says minister (The Telegraph)

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:56:04 GMT

A David Cameron premiership would be "destructive" for the country minister Yvette Cooper has warned.

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Yvette Cooper: The Tories don't add up (The Guardian)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:08:33 GMT

Yvette Cooper: Cameronomics are contradictory and destructive - Labour must expose them

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Another day, another 20% lead (ConservativeHome's ToryDiary)

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:05:11 GMT

The Sunday Times also has these interesting findings: "With the economic news getting gloomier by the day, Cameron and George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, enjoy a two-to-one lead over Brown and Alistair Darling when people were asked whom they trusted...

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Darling challenged over plan to close his local post offices (The Herald )

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:55:32 GMT

Pressure was mounting on Chancellor Alistair Darling last night over proposals to axe post offices in his constituency.

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Do we need to review public procurement rules? (Phil Slocombe)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:40:06 GMT

According to the Financial Times , Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, is at loggerheads with Harriet Harman, the deputy Labour leader and minister for equality, over procurement rules. Apparently, Ms Harman would like those 30 per cent of companies that sell goods and services to the state to "improve their equality". Under the Harman proposals, companies could be awarded pu...

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Darling pressed to clarify stamp duty idea (Financial Time)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:00:00 GMT

Alistair Darling, the chancellor, is under renewed pressure to clarify any plans for a stamp duty holiday after a poll of estate agents showed the uncertainty was...

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