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LEFT economists yesterday warned of “brutal cuts” hidden in the Budget that will ensure the poor continue getting poorer and the rich richer.
The £13 billion cut from public services and a further £12bn from benefits will mean just that, warn Left Economics Advisory Panel’s (Leap) Andrew Fisher and MP John McDonnell.
Leap co-ordinator Mr Fisher said: “There has been no recovery for most workers or people out of work — and won’t be for several years yet.
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
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
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
Under current policy, welfare cuts are just a small downpayment on future austerity, argues MICHAEL BURKE