Osborne should apologise for calling VAT 'progressive'
Labour Leader Ed Miliband has strongly criticised the government's VAT increase which comes into effect today.
VAT is to rise from 17.5% to 20%.
Chancellor George Osborne defended the increase saying it was a "tough but necessary step towards Britain's economic recovery" and called the move progressive.
But Ed Miliband called the increase the wrong tax at the wrong time.
04 Jan 2011
- From the section UK Politics