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File photo dated 03/10/14 of a hospital ward
MINISTERS must protect public services from soaring inflation and the Tory-made economic crisis, the TUC has demanded as new research reveals schools and hospitals need billions more just to stand still.
Social justice think tank the New Economics Foundation said its analysis shows that public services require an additional £43 billion a year by 2024-25 just to ensure real-terms spending stays at the level set out in last year’s spending review.
The study shows the damage that will be done to vital services and key workers’ livelihoods if Prime Minister Rishi Sunak does not stick to the commitments he made as chancellor in 2021, the TUC stressed.
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Government's plan means ‘extra cash for war and overseas interventions, but less for schools and hospitals,’ Unison general secretary Andrea Egan warns
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
