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Financial Times Reveals the Flaws in Conservative Tax Plans for Marriage

The Financial Times has revealed in detail the muddled thinking behind the Conservatives proposals for transferable tax allowances to support marriage. In agreement with local Lib Dems the FT concluded that "The beneficiaries of (the Conservatives') transferable tax allowances are single-earner couples who tend to be at the upper end of the income distribution. The policy is therefore a straight-forward redistribution from poor to rich.

11 Jan 2010

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Times Reveals more Dodgy Donations for the Conservatives

The Times has uncovered more dodgy donations from millionaires to the Conservative Party. In an article published on the 10th January, the Times revealed that tens of thousands of pounds donated by the Goldsmith family and by the Reuben brothers, who are property developers and aluminium tycoons, had been improperly recorded by the Conservative Party thereby obscuring the source of the money.

10 Jan 2010

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Tories covered up cash donations from Zac Goldsmith

The Conservative party hid donations of £40,000 from Zac Goldsmith, his brother Ben and two billionaire brothers in an apparent breach of the law.

MWSH

by Marie Woolf and Solomon Hughes

10 Jan 2010

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Marriage is no rose garden, and the Tory party knows it

The research doesn't support David Cameron's thesis - and most people think there are better targets for tax breaks.

by Amelia Gentleman - http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/ameliagentleman

5 Jan 2010

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The idiotic debate over marriage tax breaks

British politics is obsessed with a silly row over whether the Conservative policy of "recognising marriage in the tax system" is affordable. This is an idiotic question. Anything is affordable if you are willing to raise taxes elsewhere or borrow to fund it.

by Chris Giles http://blogs.ft.com/money-supply/author/chrisgiles/

5 Jan 2010

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Why won't Labour buy British?

That's the question being raised, after the Labour Government announced it will be buying 22 new Chinook Helicopters from American firm Boeing and not from Yeovil based Augusta-Westland, who have a licence to produce the Chinook for the UK and European markets.

4 Jan 2010

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by Calum Miller

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by Monica Harding

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Science & Technology

A New Hope for the Space Industry

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by Victoria Collins

23 Sep 2025

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