Courtesy of Alan Johnson’s interview in the Independent today:
“Both [Ed Miliband and Johnson] have accepted that it is ‘inconceivable’ that the 50p tax rate won’t be needed at the time of the next election.”
Or, in other words, Johnson and Miliband have reached compromise over their divergent positions on the 50p rate.
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