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JOHN MCDONNELL is to join public-sector workers in Parliament today at a rally blasting the government for trying to “hoodwink” us into believing it has scrapped the pay cap.
The shadow chancellor will attend a briefing by civil servants’ union PCS to push the case for abandoning the austerity agenda altogether ahead of next week’s Spring Statement.
Dr Faiza Shaheen, director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (Class) think tank, will present new research showing that Whitehall budgets have been slashed so dramatically that departments will not be able to afford well-below-inflation pay awards of 1 per cent.
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
