Clegg rejects higher pensioner tax

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has rejected recommendations that pensioners should pay higher taxes and have benefits cut in order to help young people achieve more.

The first annual report of the government's Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission to be published today will say that older generations should become targets of austerity measures after years of being safeguarded by MPs, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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