Politics live blog – Tuesday 4 January 2011
Politics live blog – Tuesday 4 January 2011
Rolling coverage of all the day’s political developments as they happen 4.00pm: Here’s an afternoon summary. • Brendan Barber, the TUC’s general secretary, has described today’s VAT increase as “clearly regressive”. He told the BBC that the rise would will “knock about 1% off the after-tax income of the richest 10%, and 2.25% of those of the poorest 10%”. The government should instead be …
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