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Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar during First Minster's Questions (FMQ's) in the debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. Picture date: Thursday September 22, 2022.
SCOTTISH leaders have condemned Kwasi Kwarteng’s “morally bankrupt” mini-budget, warning it rewards bankers at the expense of plunging millions into poverty.
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said the Chancellor’s plans, which include axing the top rate of income tax for the highest earners and scrapping bankers’ bonuses while adding restrictions to the benefits system, “demonstrate whose side the Tories are on.”
“It is economically illiterate and morally bankrupt,” Mr Sarwar said.
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Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
