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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Sam Blewett and Michael Howie

Conservatives float tax cuts and help for first-time buyers to turn around dire polling

The Tories have been dropping hints they could make attention-grabbing pledges on housing and taxes as Rishi Sunak struggles to turn around his party’s major deficit in the polls.

Housing Secretary Michael Gove suggested to the Times that the Conservatives will promise to cut the up-front cost of a home for first-time buyers in a pre-election giveaway.

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