Gordon brown articles
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Gordon Brown: Police should investigate News UK phone hacking 'cover up'
Gordon Brown believes his phone may have been hacked while he was PM and is considering legal action.
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ALEX BRUMMER: Labour's big pension lie They claim to be the party you can trust with your retirement. In fact, Keir Starmer's plotting a stealth tax raid (just like Gordon Brown!)
Prior to the New Labour general election landslide of 1997, I learned through reliable City sources that the party's Chancellor-in-waiting, Gordon Brown, were planning a tax grab on Britain's pension funds.
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ALEX BRUMMER: Labour’s big pension lie… They claim to be the party you can trust with your retirement. In fact, Keir Starmer is planning a secret tax raid (just like Gordon Brown!)
Before New Labor's landslide victory in the 1997 general election, I learned from reliable City sources that the party's future chancellor, Gordon Brown, and his economic adviser Ed Balls were planning a tax seizure of Britain's pension funds.Working secretly with the now-defunct accounting firm Arthur Andersen, they worked on a law that would repeal the tax breaks that British companies enjoyed on dividend payments into company pension schemes.The estimated £5 billion a year the government...