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Future graduates will pay more in student loan repayments – and the poorest will be worst affected

  • Written by: Charlotte Booth, Research Fellow in Quantitative Social Science, UCL
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Lots of people are hoping to see a tax cut in their payslips after the British government announces its annual budget in March. The prime minister, Rishi Sunak, has said he wants to reduce the tax burden on workers, at a time when the country is paying more of the money it makes to the Treasury than at any time since the...

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