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From the Daily Mail’s John Stevens
By my maths, England’s tiers will now be split…
Tier 1 – 906,374 people (1.6%)
Tier 2 – 17,275,030 people (30.7%)
Tier 3 – 38,105,557 people (67.7%)
From the Telegraph’s Gordon Rayner
That means a total of 38 million people in England will be in Tier 3, or 68 per cent of the population.
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