PM and chancellor bolster efforts to remove VAT on sanitary products as campaigners and Eurosceptics join forcesDavid Cameron is to lobby EU leaders and the European commission president,Jean-Claude Juncker, at a summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday to allow the UK to strike down VAT on womens sanitary products.
As George Osborne said he hoped to reach an agreement with Brussels within days, or Downing Street confirmed the prime minister would raise the so-called “tampon tax” issue on the margins of the EU talks.
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Source: theguardian.com