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Listed below are comments made by NickAnstead between Tuesday, 27th May 2008 and Thursday, 19th June 2008.

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Contrasting speeches 11:11am on 19 Jun 2008 Nick, can I ask a question about news coverage? Every where I have seen, including your blog post and Newsnight last night, led on the tone of the two speeches and the projected economic climate.

But last night the BBC website was leading on a different aspect of the speech, and Alistair Darling's announcement that the B of E would no longer have the sole goal of meeting inflation targets but instead in maintaining "economic stability". Isn't that an absolutely huge story which demonstrates a fundamental shift in the ordering of government priorities? I'm a bit confused as to why it didn't cause bigger headlines. Is it a re-announcement that I just haven't heard? Or was it not considered as newsworthy as the other items in the speech that did lead?
Are green taxes dead? 1:27pm on 27 May 2008 I suspect Green taxes are far from dead, but there seems to be a growing appreciation that they are a very blunt and inequitable policy instrument.

I think the future will see very different and more sophisticated approaches taken (probably in combination with some green taxes) - most important of which will be a system of carbon credits.

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