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Brown leaves windfall tax supporters frustrated
Friday 5th September 2008, 9:31AM BST.
Campaigners for a windfall tax on energy companies have begun criticising the prime minister after he ruled out such a move yesterday.
Gordon Brown told Scotland’s Confederation of British Industry (CBI) he does not intend to introduce “short-term gimmicks or giveaways” to address the problems faced by Britain’s “hard-pressed, hard-working families”.
He rejected a “fuel stabiliser” as an inadequate solution to the supply and demand of oil, appearing to rule out calls for a windfall tax on energy firms to pay for energy efficiency schemes.
Unite the Union, left-wing pressure group Compass and backbench Labour MPs like Fabian Hamilton have been critical of the move.
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