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15/05/2008
Flint gaffe reveals ministers' fears of housing slump
House prices are set to fall by 5 to 10 per cent "at best" this year – but ministers have no idea how badly the market could slump, according to confidential cabinet documents accidentally revealed by the Housing minister, Caroline Flint.
Darling buys way out of trouble with £120 boost for 17 million taxpayers
Seventeen million basic-rate taxpayers will receive a tax cut of £120 this year after Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, announced a £2.7bn handout to compensate the low-paid who were set to lose out over the abolition of the 10p tax band.
The truth really is out there as Britain's 'X-files' released
Her Majesty's Government may have concluded in 1979 that "it has never been approached by people from outer space" but the current Pope is entertaining the idea of aliens.
How ‘tax cuts’ in Brown’s last Budget backfired
Alistair Darling's announcement of a tax cut for 17 million people hit by the abolition of the 10p tax band is the most dramatic of a succession of U-turns and policy shifts that have dogged his tenure as Chancellor.
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