Campaigners including Silver Voices director Dennis Reed handed a petition with 275,000 signatures to Downing Street, urging Prime Minister Andy Burnham to raise the personal allowance by at least £1,000 in the upcoming Budget. The allowance has been frozen at £12,570 since 2021 and will stay there until 2031, which campaigners say has cost people £3,500 and would now exceed £16,000 if unfrozen. Burnham earlier said the issue was 'lodged in my mind' and would be looked at in the Budget, but insisted there was no immediate commitment to increase it. The Daily Express plans a protest on October 28 ahead of Chancellor John Healey's first Budget.
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