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Support for Robin Hood tax growing, says Brown – 8 in the morning, February 11th

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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

Oops! Barack Obama does not support the financial transactions tax, and although it is still being discussed, Gordon Brown refers to alternative plans to tax the banks in his FT interview.

* Devious, dishonest and complicit in torture: a top judge delivers a damning report on the MI5.

* Global support is growing for the “Robin Hood” financial transactions tax, Gordon Brown has said in an interview with the FT.

* People living in the poorest areas can expect to suffer 17 more years of ill health and disability than those living in wealthy areas, a major review of health inequalities shows.

* The five Labour councillors who wrote about concerns over the PM’s healthcare reforms have apparently been “pressured” to withdraw their statements.

* 20 years after Nelson Mandela was released from jail, friends, family and activists celebrate the Long Walk to Freedom.

* Labour MP Richard Caborn and former TUC general secretary Norman Wills have written to David Cameron asking that he apologise for his lobby-funded trip to Apartheid South Africa in 1989.

* Tory MP Andrew MacKay has taken a lobbying job, days after David Cameron said lobbying is the “next big scandal waiting to happen”.

* Mutualism could unite left and right of the Labour Party, writes James Macintrye in the New Statesman.

Alex is the founder and CEO of The Cares Family. He was editor and first director of LabourList in 2009-2010, during which time he established the site as the number one Labour blog, and later an aide to Ed Miliband.

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