The age-related personal allowances for over-65s were phased out by austerity Chancellor George Osborne back in 2013 in a move described as a Tory 'granny tax'
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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who is head of the Church of England, branded the austerity-era policy 'cruel' and said Labour should commit to scrapping it
On Friday the museum announced that a total of 626 items, out of around 1,500 missing or stolen objects, had been found and returned to London.away as North America.