THE security at the women journalists’ meeting with women ministers and MPs was uncompromising – At least if you were a man. The women-only rule meant that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s bodyguards had to shuffle their feet outside the door having been told firmly that they were not allowed in. In the ensuing round-table discussion on taxation Tessa Jowell delivered the intriguing observation that, if the Government started raising income tax, “everybody would go and live in New York”.
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