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Cameron apologises as child benefit fury grows

David Cameron will today offer tax breaks to married couples in a bid to quell fury over child benefit reforms.

The Prime Minister has been stung by widespread outrage over Chancellor George Osborne’s plans to axe child benefit for higher-rate taxpayers, costing a family with two children £1752 a year.

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