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Conservative Party Promises Support for Marriage, if Elected : 27th Aug 08
Married couples will be offered new tax breaks as one of the priorities of a Conservative government, the UK’s 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.
In an interview with “The Daily Telegraph”, Mr Osborne says: "Marriage will be recognised in the tax system. If I am David's Chancellor - which I fully expect to be - then I will implement that. We know that in general marriage is an institution that contributes to building a stronger society.
That is why Labour was wrong to stop supporting it through the tax system and that is why we will recognise it." Senior Conservative sources have disclosed that the marriage tax perk will be introduced as an "early priority" of a Cameron administration.
Party leader Mr David Cameron has spoken repeatedly of his mission to mend Britain's "broken society" and is understand to regard this a key policy.The Tory leader points to evidence that almost half of unmarried couples split up before their child's fifth birthday, compared with a divorce rate of one in 12. The Telegraph.
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