UK- Chancellor Gordon Brown survived a Conservative call for a vote of no confidence over his 1997 decision to scrap tax relief on pensions.
Shadow chancellor Gordon Osborne, who tabled the motion, accused Brown of ‘acting with stealth’, and hitting the pensions of 125,000 people. But the motion was rejected by 298 to 233, a majorit...
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