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GEORGE Osborne claimed the Tories are the real party of working people yesterday, while dodging his cuts to tax credit and devastating job losses in Redcar.
And he revealed plans to devolve business rates and “phase out” grants to local authorities — severely hampering redistribution of wealth across the country.
“We all want more decisions to be made locally. But by devolving business rates without any national safeguards, regional inequalities will get wider,” warned TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady.
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
