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“REVERSE Robin Hood” Chancellor George Osborne claimed yesterday that deep cuts hitting Britain’s poorest are merely a scratch in public spending.
Mr Osborne braced Britain for more bad news in Wednesday’s Budget in an appearance on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, claiming: “We need to act now so we don’t pay later.”
He said cuts equivalent to 50p in every £100 spent by the government were needed and claimed it was “not a huge amount in the scheme of things.”
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
The government’s retreat on PIP still leaves 150,000 new universal credit claimants facing halved benefits from April 2026, creating a discriminatory two-tier welfare system that campaigners must continue fighting, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY
