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Chancellor George Osborne launched the most vicious assault yet on public services and welfare yesterday in his crusade to build a paradise for speculators and bankers.
He announced devastating extra cuts of £25 billion after 2015, including further welfare cuts of £12bn.
The year 2014 would be "a year of hard truths," he warned.
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
In the run-up to the Communist Party congress in November ROB GRIFFITHS outlines a few ideas regarding its participation in the elections of May 2026
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