Conservatives and Lib-Dems Promise More for Poorer ; Commentary

Evening Standard - London › April 28, 2005

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LABOUR has been consistently progressive in its tax and benefit reforms, helping poorer pensioners and families with children while raising taxes for the better off.

Yet in their manifesto plans for tax and benefits, the Conservatives and especially the Liberal Democrats are promising to do more for poorer households than Labour. In 2001 Labour promised about Pounds 2.4 billion more to low and lowermiddle income families through tax credits - which it more than delivered.

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Conservatives and Lib-Dems Promise More for Poorer ; Commentary

The Lib-Dems proposed similar redistribution, but on a smaller scale. The Tories targeted a promised Pounds 8b...

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