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Improving tax receipts could boost budget by £13bn – 8 in the morning, March 19th

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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982

* Improving tax receipts could give Alistair Darling an extra £13 billion for next week’s budget.

* The government will today announce plans to help local communities buy up struggling pubs.

* Last ditch talks between BA and Unite will resume this morning, before strikes are due to begin tomorrow.

* Newly unearthed correspondence reveals Lord Ashcroft’s written undertaking to become a permanent UK resident – and the “intense lobbying” on his behalf by William Hague.

* The Ashcroft affair is a vote loser for the Tories, write Martin Fletcher and Sam Coates.

* The next Tory poster campaign will attack the Prime Minister and carry a negative message.

* The Robin Hood tax’s time has come, writes Jeffry Sachs in the Guardian.

* Mandelson and Clarke: A “rumble in the jungle that could always go the whole 15 rounds.”

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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