Video: Nick Clegg demands 'fairness for the middle' as he calls on treasury to raise tax threshold sooner The Liberal Democrat leader said the Government had to act quickly to help people who work and "do the right thing by themselves" to keep more of the money they earn. "We've heard a lot over the last few days and weeks about fairness at the top, executive pay, fairness at the bottom, benefits and so on," he said. This is about delivering fairness to the middle, to those millions of people, who get up early, work hard, work long hours, who really make an effort to pay the weekly and monthly bills. I want to see us give those people, more of a tax break, more money back in their pockets because I think they really need the help right now. The proposed tax cuts - which would give back more than £700 to anyone earning under £100,000 a year - would be funded by new levies on the wealthy. The Coalition already plans to increase the level at which income tax becomes payable, from its current £7,475 to £10,000 by 2015. The tax-free threshold was expected to rise by about £630 annually.