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United Kingdom: Brown faces rebellion over windfall tax on energy firms
Source: Posted: 08-28-2008 at 07:00:29
| Independent: Gordon Brown faces an embarrassing defeat at next month's Labour Party conference over the Government's refusal to impose a windfall tax on the energy companies. Supporters of a one-off raid on energy firms to fund help for people paying soaring fuel bills are planning to force a vote on the issue at Labour's Manchester conference, which opens on 20 September. They claim strong and growing support for the idea among trade unions and Labour constituency parties – which each have ... |
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