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June 19, 2015

Times ordered to republish correction – with front page promotion – on inaccurate Labour tax plans splash

By William Turvill

The Times has republished a correction, and promoted it on the front page, over an inaccurate story about Labour's tax plans.

The story, published on the front page on 24 April (two weeks before the general election), was headlined "Labour's £1,000 tax on families".

Jonathan Portes complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation that the claim "Ed Miliband would saddle every working family with extra taxes equivalent to more than £1,000" was inaccurate.

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