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Andy Burnham confirms £12,570 HMRC personal tax-free allowance could change

  • Bias Rating

    -8% Center

  • Reliability

    45% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    -8% Center

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Andy Burnham has hinted at increasing the £12,570 HMRC personal tax-free allowance as Prime Minister.
51% : In an interview with The Times, Mr Burnham said the fact the tax-free allowance had been frozen at £12,570 for five years was "the thing I heard the most on the doorsteps".
50% : How do we just make people feel better?" READ MORE Santander to axe long-standing service for customers from August He said: "You have to rethink how we run things to get a different approach to public spending and running the economy which is much more focused on early investment, early intervention, setting people up for success and much less paying for failure.
45% : He added: "So when people, they're just characterising me as a tax raiser, well again it's never that simplistic is it?

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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