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    George Osborne clears path for tax cuts in Budget with £1bn benefits raid More than 600,000 disabled people will lose a portion of their benefits payments in a move that will save £1.2billion by 2020 and could allow the Chancellor to cut taxes for the middle classes. Benefits payments to the disabled are to be cut by more than £1billion in a move that could clear the way for George Osborne to cut taxes for the middle classes in the Budget. Ministers on Friday announced that more than 600,000 disabled people will lose a portion of their benefits payments, in a move that will save £1.2billion by 2020. It gives the Chancellor extra money, which insiders believe he could use to cut taxes in his Budget next week. The Chancellor is set to raise the threshold at which people star...

    Nearly 6,000 foreign national criminals who are eligible for deportation from Britain have been released to live in the community, new figures have revealed. Official Home Office data disclosed how an average of five foreign offenders a day were freed from jail or bailed from immigration detention in the final three months of last year. Many will be claiming they cannot be deported because of their human rights, including the "right to private and family life" under Labour's Human Rights Act. Numbers have soared by nearly 900 in a year, with just 4,903 living in the community at the end of 2014 compared with 5,789 at the end of last year - a jump of 18 per cent. In 2012 the figure was less than 4,000. The figures, reported for the first time today, emerged in a report by t...