Yesterday the exchanges and off exchanges did something like 26 billion shares. I have this image of Dean Baker salivating over all the money they could have had from the tax.
Cameron is against the tax - says that any type of FTT would devastate the City no matter how uniform it would be.
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/5832043/hague-and-cameron-are-vindicated-for-leaving-the-epp.thtml
Brown supported the FTT and actively pushed for it. Not Cameron.