Gordon Brown’s reforms to CGT encouraged stock market speculators and private equity asset strippers, while it was the Thatcher government that brought rates into line with income tax.
Gordon Brown’s proposed elected upper chamber could protect plans to decentralise power, but it’s arguably not in the Labour party’s interest to introduce one.
Angelo Martelli, London School of Economics and Political Science
Staying in would enable the UK to play an active role in tackling the most pressing issues of the day, from tax evasion to terrorism, the former PM argued.
Britain is now in full general election countdown mode – and the polls indicate another hung parliament is the most likely outcome on May 7. Gus O’Donnell, the former cabinet secretary, recently reflected…
In the week Gordon Brown announced he will stand down from his Westminster constituency at the May 2015 general election, two central observations come to mind. From the Brown government to its Cameron-Clegg…
Gordon Brown will retire from the Commons viewed on the one hand as a giant of Scottish Labour who spent 13 years at the pinnacle of frontline UK politics as chancellor and prime minister: the son of the…