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ED MILIBAND risked walking into a Tory trap yesterday by joining the chorus claiming that reducing Britain’s deficit will be the defining general election issue, according to top economist Ann Pettifor.
Ms Pettifor said the Labour leader “struck a chord” by calling out Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement as “extreme” and “ideological.”
But the Prime Economics head warned that he had played in to Mr Osborne’s hands by putting reducing Britain’s deficit at the centre of his plan for government.
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP