Mr Portillo also pledged to cut taxes on businesses, to restore the married couples allowance, to give more help to pensioners - and to cut the duty on petrol.

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Alongside that pain he's offered voters some gains - the cancellation of the next planned fuel duty rise and another small income tax cut by an increase in the personal tax allowance.

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She said cuts in fuel duty, the freezing of council tax and increases in the level of personal tax allowance would help families, while the new Universal Credit would make three million households better off and help 80, 000 with childcare costs.

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