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Thursday October 16, 2008
Michael Portillo
Brown’s fallen into Salmond’s tax trap
In local taxation Alex Salmond has found the perfect subject to stoke Scottish resentment
Brown has used up his inheritance
The PM remains anchored on the middle ground but if Labour loses the election it will again drift off to the left towards political obscurity
A world role for Britain slips away
With Gordon Brown presiding over a shrinking foreign policy, could Britain become invisible on the world stage?
Knifing Brown will kill Labour, Mr Miliband
Resorting to three prime ministers in 15 months looks desperate, however you dress it up
Let Gordon win the election for you, Dave
Stand back from all the economic gloom and savour the guilty pleasure of enjoying the prime minister's fall from grace
Michael Portillo
Michael Portillo left the House of Commons in 2005 after a 30-year career with the Conservative Party, which took him from MP for Enfield Southgate to transport and local government minister to the Cabinet, where he served as Treasury Secretary and Secretary of State for Defence. Since leaving politics he has written weekly for The Sunday Times and made a number of documentaries for BBC2
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