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Brown attacked over road tax hike Brown attacked over road tax plan
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David Cameron has told Gordon Brown he will be ousted as prime minister if he does not get rid of his "deeply unpopular" plan to raise road tax. David Cameron has told Gordon Brown he will be ousted if he does not drop his "deeply unpopular" plans for higher road tax on more polluting cars.
In angry question time exchanges, he challenged Mr Brown: "Don't you understand that if you don't get rid of it, they will get rid of you?"In angry question time exchanges, he challenged Mr Brown: "Don't you understand that if you don't get rid of it, they will get rid of you?"
But the PM said the Tory leader sounded "more like a used car salesman" who ran away from supporting green taxes. But the PM said the Tory leader sounded "more like a used car salesman".
MPs are angry at plans to up tax on the most polluting cars bought since 2001. Some green groups say the tax should apply to new cars only, rather than all cars bought since 2001.
Owners of some of the oldest cars could face a tax rise of as much as £200 - a move which the Conservatives and many Labour MPs say will hit poorer drivers the hardest.
It's not my backbenchers who are telling me to get on my bike David CameronConservative leader
Mr Brown insisted that 24 of the top 30 models of car would incur the same vehicle excise duty or lower.
But Mr Cameron hit back: "What you are doing is treating the Ford Focus as one model - in fact there are 40 models of the Ford Focus. You've got the saloon and the estate."
He said owners of only three of these 40 models would be better off. "When are you going to stop using such dodgy statistics to back up your figures?"
Mr Brown, who taunted the Tory leader for riding his bike to work while a car followed with his bags, said: "When are the Conservative Party going to be honest when they say they support green taxes and then they run away from everyone of them?
"You are sounding more and more like a used car salesman today."
'Stealth tax'
Mr Cameron retorted: "It's not my backbenchers who are telling me to get on my bike."
He said the road tax hike was "not a green tax, it's a stealth tax". "What on earth is green about taxing someone who bought a Ford Mondeo five years ago?"
Mr Brown replied that the shake up of vehicle excise duty would save 1.3m tonnes of CO2 and increase the number of clean cars.