Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg poured out buckets of hypocrisy in the Commons yesterday when angry Labour MPs accused him of shoring up the Tories' war on the poor.
The shameless Lib Dem leader pleaded that he did not support all the welfare cuts and professed disagreement with the Tory target of reducing immigration figures to tens of thousands.
But when Labour MPs demanded that he resign, he replied that he must stay in place to help "clear up the black hole in the public finances" left by the Labour government.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
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
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP


