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Welsh Labour responded to NHS crisis claims yesterday with a pledge to pay for 1,000 new front-line workers with money raised from a mansion tax.
First Minister Carwyn Jones said that new doctors, nurses and therapists would be his first priority with cash raised by the tax, which would be implemented if Labour takes power at Westminster in May.
The Welsh government would receive a share of money raised through the annual charge on owners of homes worth over £2 million.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
