Marriage


End anti-marriage bias say Tories

Britain's tax and benefits system must lose its "anti-marriage bias" if the UK's "broken society" is to be fixed, Tory leader David Cameron has said.

He welcomed predecessor Iain Duncan Smith's social justice policy group report proposing 190 measures including tax breaks for some married couples.

He would not be "instantly picking and choosing" policies but wanted to hold a "serious debate" on the ideas.

Labour says the plans will discriminate against lone and unmarried parents.

Both Labour and the Tories have dug themseleves into a political hole because the way they have arrange benefits it is financially better for a couple to stay unmarried. An unmarried mother of two can get £400 in benefits, if she married her partner, he would then have to work many more hours to equal that

It has little to do with 'moral decline' or 'broken society', its all down to finances.

Further reading - Against tax breaks and policy gap