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UK MPs slam Brown over tax and alcohol


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Gordon Brown was facing the first serious test of his political authority yesterday when a senior minister attacked his plans to raise alcohol duty in the budget and he was forced to respond to a tax revolt by backbench MPs. To defuse escalating concern over the centrepiece of his final budget as chancellor, Brown's whips promised to look again at claims that 5 million poorer households were being hurt by the abolition of the 10p income tax band. A group of normally loyal backbenchers had tabled an early day motion criticising the impact of the abolition and rejecting assurances given by ministers about its impact. Yesterday it also became clear that scientists advising the government over the reclassification of cannabis believe that it should stay as a class C drug, and not be upgraded to class B. Do you think cannabis should be reclassified as a more harmful drug in UK law? And should alcohol be taxed in order to fund social measures?
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