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| Darling: Brown can win election | Darling: Brown can win election |
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| Alistair Darling says he is optimistic Gordon Brown can overcome his current political difficulties to "turn things round" and win the next election. | Alistair Darling says he is optimistic Gordon Brown can overcome his current political difficulties to "turn things round" and win the next election. |
| The chancellor said Labour needed to set our a clear vision and "recapture that conviction and zeal" it once had. | The chancellor said Labour needed to set our a clear vision and "recapture that conviction and zeal" it once had. |
| Mr Darling, who is deputising for the PM while he is on holiday, said: "I think we can get through this." | Mr Darling, who is deputising for the PM while he is on holiday, said: "I think we can get through this." |
| He refused to be drawn on reports the government is considering temporarily scrapping stamp duty. | |
| In a wide-ranging interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said he was "looking at a number of measures" and had not "concluded exactly what we need to do". | |
| He also argued that there were problems "in principle" and in "practicality" in relation to calls for a windfall tax on energy companies to counter public anger at record increases in fuel costs. | |
| It was suggested last week that the cash generated from this would be used to help poorer families who will struggle to pay their bills this winter. | |
| Mr Darling said he would be working with energy companies to try to ensure that people could pay higher bills. |