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A “SUBSTANTIAL” proportion of money replacing EU structural funds after Brexit should be allocated to training and skills in regions with high unemployment, a Labour-commissioned report recommends.
Future governments should commit to replacing EU funding worth at least £1.5 billion a year and also allow for inflation, it says.
The trading bloc has allocated £9bn to be distributed across Britain between 2014 and 2020, with Wales getting more than £2bn due to its “less developed” status.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
Under current policy, welfare cuts are just a small downpayment on future austerity, argues MICHAEL BURKE
