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Liberal Democrats saw that 10p change meant taxes increase for less well-off
In the current turmoil over the government's removal of the 10p tax threshold, voters have the right to ask: why didn't anybody notice at the time, when the measure was first brought in by Gordon Brown, then Chancellor, in the 2007 Budget.