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The coming battle over the ‘undeserving rich’

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Who can be toughest on the ‘undeserving rich’ is shaping up to be one of the main political battlegrounds of 2012. David Cameron and Nick Clegg’s comments today on tax avoidance are an attempt to get ahead of this debate. 
 
Clegg, though, is keen to make this issue his own.

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