As James indicated earlier, the problem for Brown is that his VAT cut just won’t get noticed (and that the eventual rise in VAT – to 22.5 percent? – will be). That’s why you can expect the rejuvenated Labour spin operation to work overtime trying to make it look like the measure’s curing all our economic ills.
Peter Hoskin
How Brown might spin himself as our Value Added Saviour

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