It aims to abolish warrant sales, a peculiarly Scottish system of debt recovery under which people, mainly the poor, have their possessions impounded and sold by court-appointed officials.

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In his speeches he promises to abolish the Alternative Minimum Tax (a secondary system designed to prevent wealthy people avoiding tax, which now hits millions of taxpayers), though the campaign's fine print suggests patching rather than eliminating it.

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The defence minister, Antonio Martino, is also seeing through a plan to abolish conscription and to overhaul the arms-procurement system.

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The charity and some MPs and peers are also concerned about government plans to abolish the office of chief coroner - a post introduced two years ago to try and reform the system and cut waiting times.

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