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• Johnson tax pledge to ‘put money back in pockets’

  23-11-2019 23:02
  
  At launch of manifesto, PM says he will not raise income tax, VAT or national insurance for five yearsBoris Johnson will on Sunday commit a Tory government to not raise income tax, VAT or national insurance for five years as he promises to “put more money back in people’s pockets” after Brexit.Launching the Conservatives’ general election manifesto, the prime minister will also pledge to protect the value of state pensions, boost spending by £1bn on childcare during
  
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• Society of Antiquaries in turmoil after vote to back sex abuser

  23-11-2019 13:45
  
  Educational charity’s leaders dismayed after bid to expel Hubert Chesshyre is defeatedOne of the country’s most venerable educational charities faces a backlash after it declined to sever its links with a sex abuser, a decision that has bewildered his victim.It has emerged that a majority of fellows at the Society of Antiquaries, which describes itself as “Britain’s oldest learned society concerned with the study and understanding of the material past”, recently vot
  
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