The Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and his colleague Lord Freud held a briefing for reporters at Westminster, in what will be seen as a concerted effort to goontheoffensive after widespread criticism of the flagship benefit reform.
As taxes go, a VAT is one of the least offensive, and a levy on bank balance sheets that penalizes excessive risk can in principle reduce the likelihood of panics.
Glick said another way to put strategic communications ontheoffensive is to use existing national and international laws to go after terrorists, and those who finance and support them, by trying them "Nuremburg style" in war crimes tribunals.