Tories attack tax changes
The Conservative party is to campaign to re-instate the ten per cent tax rate for Britain's lowest-earning workers, the Guardian reports.
Announcing the plan at a news conference yesterday, party leader David Cameron said that the rate's abolition was "hitting some of Britain's poorest families".
Under new income tax laws which came in to effect last Sunday, the 22 per cent income tax band was reduced to 20 per cent, along with the abolition of the ten per cent band.
This effectively means that the financial gains of the middle income group is offset by the low-paid being forced to pay more tax - which could in turn make it harder for them to pay off debt.
Mr Cameron was joined in criticising the policy by former Labour minister Frank Field, who said that it "[struck] at the very essence of what the…party is still about".
Speaking on Sky News, Mr Field termed the tax changes a "double hammer blow".
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