Gilmore ‘confident’ no more backbenchers will revolt

TÁNAISTE Eamon Gilmore has claimed he does not expect to lose any more TDs following next week’s budget even as another Labour backbencher fired a shot across the party’s bows.

Patrick Nulty, who won the Dublin West by-election in October and is the party’s newest TD, called on the Government to hike taxes on high-income earners in the budget so as to avoid measures that would hurt those on low and average pay.

Mr Nulty also warned that Tommy Broughan’s revolt should be “taken very seriously” by Mr Gilmore.