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The pledge is set to be unveiled in the party's manifesto as the Tories position themselves to appeal to hard pressed voters.

The personal tax allowance currently stands at £11,500 and the party is aiming to increase that to take millions of low paid workers "out of tax entirely".

And they are getting set to abandon David Cameron's "tax lock" pledge as they look at ways of turning the flailing economy around.

Defence secretary Sir Michael Fallon says the Tory manifesto will be aimed at cutting taxes.

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It’s Conservative governments that take the lower paid, in particular, out of tax

He told The Telegraph: “The manifesto will certainly make clear which side of this argument we’re on – it’s Labour governments that increase tax, it’s Conservative governments that take the

lower paid, in particular, out of tax.” 

The number of employees earning the minimum wage in Britain will double to more than 10 per cent of the UK workforce by 2020 it has been warned.

Two years ago a nationwide analysis by the Resolution Foundation said only one in 50 employees were being paid the minimum wage when it was introduced in 1999 by Tony Blair’s Labour

government.

However the numbers have rocketed to one in 20 and is set to increase to one in nine by 2020, or 3.2 million people.

Any attempt to offer tax breaks to lower income workers is likely to win the Tories votes.

Mrs May will make a whistle-stop tour of Wales today in a bid to promote her Brexit position to the country which voted out.

Leave won the EU referendum campaign in Wales with 854,572 (52.5 per cent) voters in Wales chose to leave the EU, compared with 772,347 (47.5 per cent) supporting Remain.

In an article for Welsh newspaper the Western Mail, Mrs May said: "Our Labour, Lib Dem and Nationalist opponents - Plaid Cymru here in Wales and Nicola Sturgeon's SNP in Scotland - are

already seeking to disrupt our negotiations, even as 27 other European countries line up to oppose us.

"That approach can only mean one thing - uncertainty and instability, bringing grave risk to our growing economy with higher taxes, fewer jobs, more waste and more debt." 

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