Merkel Attacks British PM Brown's Plan For "Global New Deal"

Merkel Attacks British PM Brown's Plan For "Global New Deal"

Gordon Brown's carefully laid plans for a G20 deal on worldwide tax cuts have been scuppered by an eve-of-summit ambush by European leaders.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, last night led the assault on the prime minister's "global new deal" for a $2 trillion-plus fiscal stimulus to end the recession.

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