Brown Press Conference

• Brown has just said that we don't want to go back to the 90's with tax cuts which cause economic stability.
• He says that Labour would have won all the marginals that ICM said they would lose.
• All about the "vision".
• Question about Post Office strikes. Says that he wants the strike over but will not say he would ban strike action.
• Mirror asks about non-domiciles and brushes it off as a matter for the Chancellor. He says he reviewed it, but then he hasn't mentioned his non-dom financial backers. Funny that!
• Earlier he said that he would "forensically" investigate the Tory non-dom plans and that he understood the figures were wrong. Two minutes later he is saying that it defintely can not provide the figures being said. Quickest forensic analysis in history?
• Robin Oakley challenges on the phoney military figures, and the decision to go to Iraq in the middle of the Tory conference. Gordon says everyone is wrong and he's not a Blairite spinner.
  
• Just been asked the exact question I was thinking. How is a three week election campaign not enough time to map our your vision? Brown has just announced that there will be lots of announcements. Who thinks they will reannouncements?
• Will he rule out an election in 2008 now? Lots more about his "vision for the future" but he has not ruled out a 2008 election.
• Claims that he has raised the threshold on Inheritance Tax and that basically he's a good guy on it. Mentioned the question of "fairness" in relation to Inheritance Tax. Envy politics is back!
• Radio One asks him if he is ditherer? Says that he is not. No surprise there then.
• Claims he doesn't know anything about his key advisors playing up an election. So he didn't listen to Ed Balls then.
• Evening Standard has asked about his claim that you can kick EU nationals for selling drugs. Brown's response is that the intepretation of the law is wrong and it wasn't a headline grabbing statement.
• Would you have gone for an election if the ICM polls had been the reverse? Claims the decision would be the same. Yeah right!
• You brought lots of business forward so why don't you come clean about the fact that you would lose? Brown repeats the line that he would have won, including the marginals.
• Again claims marginal MPs were in favour of an election.
• A local journalist has picked up on his use of "fairness" in relation to Inheritance Tax. Something tells me that the "debate" he keeps talking about is going to be classic politics of envy. He has again said that the figures are wrong, even though earlier he said he still had to "forensically" analyse it.