which is not surprising given lord mandelson and in charge of the campaign.went down to southern london, meeting a lot of middle-class voters those coming outside. number 10 showing the focus on middle-class. i think in campaigning style, brown is not a blair. he is not at ease with the voters even though i think it is a bit more of that today that in the past. he does a committee with people in quite the same way. >> parliament whining up in a day or so and they agreed, they have agreed what bills they will get through the so-called washup. >> we are hearing the details of this. i don't recall this happening before. the government has before an election, the government has dropped three of its attacks measures that were announced in the budget a few days ago. the levy on the broadband lovely, the holiday tax, and also the 10% rise inside a tax would effectively be dropped. it will be dropped from the 30th of june unless parliament voted to reinstate it. so that's quite an interesting series of measures. at the same time, quite a number of other important mea

. >> and a few days later, where mandelson was -- -- ward mandelson -- the lord mandelson.laughter] >> and during the guacamole period of his life. -- entering. political courage. >> storms were gathering. the bankers move from being frantic. it was becoming a problem. the lehman brothers investment bank collapsed. in britain, minister is engaged in dealmaking. the chancellor tried to explain things. >> they want to rebuild the banks. we want to do this as soon as is feasible possible. we will maintain our stake for as long as we can do that. >> even though the banking system has been on the verge of collapse, this is really the only option for the country. it might be necessary. we consider it constructively with the government on solving this financial crisis, but, of course, the scale of what the taxpayer is on the hook for is only just starting to don on the people. >> things were very different at a report three weeks later. the tories attacked. >> $78 billion pounds this year. they will again be barring only to invest. >> there is a suggestion for the underlying budge