Luddite minister wants supertax on Britain’s top earners

A supertax on high earners should be considered as part of Gordon Brown’s autumn fight-back, a minister says today.

Ivan Lewis, writing in The Sunday Times, calls on the government to introduce a new economic package to bail out the hard-pressed middle classes – possibly paid for by new taxes on the rich.

The health minister warns that urgent steps must be taken to protect the living standards of the “mainstream majority” of comfortably off voters who swept Labour to power in 1997.

His intervention ends the brief summer truce in Labour’s civil war following the government’s disastrous defeat in the Glasgow East by-election and is likely to be the first of a series of provocative moves by MPs disillusioned by the party’s flagging fortunes.

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Luddite minister wants supertax on Britain’s top earners

Luddite minister wants supertax on Britain’s top earners

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