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Is the 50p tax rate here to stay?

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The prime minister says the 50p top rate of tax is "temporary" but has refused to be drawn on when it will be abolished.

Camilla Cavendish, associate editor and columnist for The Times, and Melissa Kite, contributing editor at The Spectator, discuss whether there is another way to raise money.


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