Did Gordon Brown blunder when he did away with the 10p bottom rate of income tax? Writing in the Financial Times, economist John Kay explains the maths behind the self-inflicted problem currently tearing apart the Labour party. Kay has worked out the income levels at which people lose and when they gain.
It seems to me, that the biggest mistake Brown made, was not to come clean on the fact that there would be a large number of losers. What seems ludicrous is that the losers are amongst UK society's poorest and most vulnerable people who appear to suffering a rate of inflation much higher than the population at large. Hubris.
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