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Deputy PM Nick Clegg’s claim that scrapping tax for Britain’s lowest earners is key to lifting people out of poverty was rubbished yesterday by new TUC research.
The election-conscious Lib Dem leader has squabbled with Tory pals over which coalition party was behind the rise in personal tax allowance to £10,000 a year.
But the move barely helps Britain’s worst-off workers because they pay little or no tax, according to an analysis by economist Howard Reed for the TUC.
If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
