Call to freeze tax and NI thresholds in £45bn assault on poverty

Fabian Society sets out five-year plan to end in-work poverty

Tax and national insurance thresholds would be frozen for the next five years to help finance a 45bn assault on poverty under radical proposals from one of Britain's leading leftwing thinktanks.

The Fabian Society, which is affiliated to the Labour party, said a range of working-age and child benefits should be raised by 5 a week as an emergency measure in the first year of the next government.

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