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Cheer up! Despite cost of childcare, it's not all bad

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Three news stories stand out for me today.

Directors at the UK's biggest companies have amassed pension pots worth on average £3.9 million

Twenty economists have written to the Financial Times urging chancellor George Osborne to axe the 50% tax rate on earnings above £150,000 a year. 

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And a survey from the Daycare Trust and Save the Children shows that parents on the lowest incomes are having to turn down jobs or leave them because of the rocketing cost of childcare, which has left many in debt and some facing poverty.

Good news for some, then. It is at times like this that I truly feel that we are all in it together. Thanks, Dave.

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Can Lib Dems offer cut-price social justice?

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He avoided urging the faithful to go back to their constituencies and prepare for government, as David Steel once did, but Lib Dems leader Nick Clegg did tell the party conference yesterday: "I can tell you where we're headed - government."

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