UK and IoM make peace in 'tax haven' row

Officials at the crown dependency had requested a summit with Straw after comments earlier this month from Alistair Darling, who said the UK would have to take a "long, hard look" at that "tax haven sitting in the Irish Sea" in the wake of the Icelandic banking crisis. "Our meeting was most positive," chief minister Brown says. "I am pleased we have received assurances the UK has no plans to examine the constitutional relationship between us, a relationship which remains robust and is clearly defined by a framework signed between our two governments in 2007." Brown adds the two had "hel...