Tory Wedding Gift

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Married couples will be offered new tax breaks as one of the priorities of a Conservative government, the shadow chancellor George Osborne has declared. Mr Osborne says that encouraging marriage is essential to building a strong society and argues that it is right to reward marriage through the tax system. 

Senior Conservative sources have disclosed that the marriage tax perk will be introduced as an "early priority" of a Cameron administration. Mr Cameron has spoken repeatedly of his mission to mend Britain's "broken society" and is understood to regard this as a key policy.

The exact details of the tax breaks are still being drawn up, but it is likely to involve the Married Couples Tax Allowance being reinstated in some form.

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