Share this article:
Today at the Press Gallery lunch, Nick Clegg attacked Ed Balls’ suggestion from this morning that the government should introduce a temporary VAT cut, calling it “a whopping great big multibillion-pound unfunded tax cut.”
Thank goodness this video isn’t still doing the rounds, eh?
Why does Nick Clegg now favour the bombshell so much that he doesn;t want to see it reversed, even temporarily?
More from LabourList
‘Labour has lost hundreds of elected members – how we care for them now will define what comes next’
Over third of Labour members have considered quitting party, poll reveals
PM brings Brown and Harman into government after bruising election