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Gordon Brown plans tax and fuel boost for families
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by Dave Keating | August 4, 2008 at 02:46 am
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A UK cabonet minister has revealed that Labour is planning a series of measures in the fall to ease the burden of the economic downturn on British families. Some of those measures include tax cuts and a reduction in fuel duty.
GORDON Brown will take emergency action to ease the credit crunch and save his job.
Yesterday, Cabinet minister John Denham said the PM's unpopularity was linked to the downturn in the economy.
He said there would be a raft of measures this autumn to ease financial pressures on families and revive Labour's position in the polls.
The package is expected to include a new "green tax" on profit-rich energy companies to help the poor and elderly pay winter fuel bills.
There could also be wideranging tax cuts, a reduction in fuel duty and a delay in planned rises in road tax.
Denham said: "Since the credit crunch started to bite, politics has been changing.
"In every country round the world, the party in power is getting it in the neck."
He said people wanted measures to protect them from the economic downturn and claimed: "In the autumn we are going to do that. No doubt about that at all."
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at 02:54 on August 4th, 2008
Dave Keating, I like this story. It's good stuff. The Uk is always ahead of time with facing the problems, that concern all of us. Gordon Brown has a difficult time with the realestate crisis on top. You have any news how homes are selling now in the UK?