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16 November 2009updated 06 Nov 2019 12:29am

Reductio ad Stalinum

Boris Johnson compares the 50p tax rate with Stalin's campaign against the kulaks.

By George Eaton

Boris Johnson writes in today’s Daily Telegraph: “[T]he 50p tax is not far, in its political motive, from Stalin’s assault on the kulaks.”

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