Gordon Brown has performed a dramatic U-turn that has opened the door for Holyrood to be handed new tax-raising powers.
In an interview with the BBC to be shown today, Brown appears to back the case for change, declaring there is "an issue" over the Scottish Parliament having responsibility for spending money but not for raising it.
He says he supports plans put forward by Scottish Labour leader Wendy Alexander to set up an independent commission to study plans to transfer more tax powers from London to Edinburgh.
This could lead to income tax rates, business taxes and VAT all being set by the Scottish Government and not Downing Street.
The Scottish Labour party has realised that without their own tax raising powers the Scottish people will be liable to endure the policies imposed upon them by a future British Conservative Government. So will we in Wales, therefore powers over income tax rates, business taxes and VAT should be transferred to the Senedd. These rates can then be set by the Welsh Government not the British.