21st March, 2012, 2:26 pm The shorter George Osborne Mark Ferguson Share this article: ‘I hate tax avoidance. So I’ve given a huge tax cut to some rich people. Because they were avoiding tax’ Tags: Budget / Mark Ferguson Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015. View all articles by Mark Ferguson Subscribe to our daily email More from LabourList Columnist Delivering in local government: How Labour is building a better Greater Manchester Labour Councils up and down the country are helping to improve the lives of their residents. Week in,… Paul Dimoldenberg 28th July, 2026, 6:00 am Comment ‘Burnham must treat soft power as part of Britain’s defence’ Andy Burnham entered No 10 this week having inherited a generational rearmament plan and, according to reports, is… Meryem Nur Küçük 28th July, 2026, 6:00 am Comment ‘The next step for Whitehall reform’ Andy Burnham was right to argue that government has spent too long chasing cut-price deals rather than supporting… Lord Dave Watts 28th July, 2026, 6:00 am
Mark Ferguson Mark Ferguson is the Labour MP for Gateshead Central and Whickham, and was the editor of LabourList from 2010 to 2015. View all articles by Mark Ferguson
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