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VAT to be cut to 15 percent
Fraser Nelson
It looks like Brown will cut VAT from 17.5% to 15% - the lowest the EU will allow. This would be the crux of Monday’s recession budget. The move costs £12.5bn and the idea would be to get retail sales moving, then jack up VAT later. The threat of the increase, of course, being the point of the stimulatory push.
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Thank goodness we can have a run on the pound when we need one
Martin Vander Weyer looks ahead to next week’s Pre-Budget Report and reflects on George Osborne’s contentious remarks about the devaluation of sterling. It looks like Gordon Brown is getting away with his borrowing binge — leaving the Tories isolated
Martin Vander WeyerI loved Oliver Stone’s Bush film — and I know why the critics hated it
The movie W. did not provide the crude anti-Bush agitprop that the reviewers craved, says Rod Liddle. This was precisely its strength: we need to get inside the minds even of those we most deplore
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