It was interesting to watch Treasury Select Committee Chairman and Labour MP John McFall come out last night and join the increasingly widening attack on the Government’s decision to scrap the 10p income tax band.
The normally loyal former Minister is usually very happy to defend his party colleagues at moments of crisis. But not this time.
His comments, coupled with ex-Sports Minister Kate Hoey’s description of the last Parliamentary Labour Party meeting as “sulphurous” over the issue is an indication of the increasing panic and paranoia rumbling through the ranks of the Brown administration – and it’s hardly surprising.
Over the last two months, 73 Labour MPs have signed at least one Commons Motion opposing the change.
Conservative Leader David Cameron is entirely correct when he says that this tax grab on some of the country’s poorest people must be stopped.
And, rather than simply talk about it, David has backed moves to block the measure when the Finance Bill returns to the House.
The next phase of this battle for what is right should be very interesting and I hope, for the sake of those in greatest need in our society, it is a battle the Labour Government loses.
The normally loyal former Minister is usually very happy to defend his party colleagues at moments of crisis. But not this time.
His comments, coupled with ex-Sports Minister Kate Hoey’s description of the last Parliamentary Labour Party meeting as “sulphurous” over the issue is an indication of the increasing panic and paranoia rumbling through the ranks of the Brown administration – and it’s hardly surprising.
Over the last two months, 73 Labour MPs have signed at least one Commons Motion opposing the change.
Conservative Leader David Cameron is entirely correct when he says that this tax grab on some of the country’s poorest people must be stopped.
And, rather than simply talk about it, David has backed moves to block the measure when the Finance Bill returns to the House.
The next phase of this battle for what is right should be very interesting and I hope, for the sake of those in greatest need in our society, it is a battle the Labour Government loses.
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