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Pressure mounts to slap windfall tax on UK oil companies

Pressure mounted on Gordon Brown last night to slap a multi-billion-pound windfall tax on the UK's oil companies to provide new money for vote-winning populist measures such as tax cuts.

Pressure mounted on Gordon Brown last night to slap a multi-billion-pound windfall tax on the UK's oil companies to provide new money for vote-winning populist measures such as tax cuts.