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Budget 2012: For the many, not the few

Article: Mar 21, 2012
Over 20 million working people will be better off next year after Liberal Democrats in the Coalition Government delivered the biggest ever increase in the income tax personal allowance in the Budget.

The massive £3.5bn tax cut for working people delivers:
- The biggest ever single uplift in the tax threshold
- A personal allowance of £9,205 in April 2013
- 21 million working people getting an extra £220 tax cut
- Brings the total tax cut for basic rate tax payers to £550
- Brings the total number of people lifted out of tax to 2 million.
"A more liberal Britain with every passing year" - Nick Clegg's speech to Lib Dem Spring Conference 2012

Article: Mar 11, 2012

Liberal Democrat Leader Nick Clegg used his speech to the Party's Spring conference in NewcastleGateshead to call for the forthcoming budget to be a "budget for fairness" and pledged that it would help working familes.

The Deputy Prime Minister pledged that by 2015 Britain would have seen an end to control orders, the first gay marriages and the first elections to the House of Lords.
What the Liberal Democrats are achieving in government

Article: Mar 9, 2012

Fairer taxes, promoting green jobs, protecting your civil liberties - these are just some of the achievements of the Liberal Democrats in government.

We're building a freer, greener and more liberal country - and stopping some of the worst excesses of the Conservatives. Find out more in this infographic.