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GREECE capitulated to eurozone creditors’ demands for more cuts yesterday in return for releasing bailout funds.
The Syriza government — elected in 2015 on an antiausterity manifesto — agreed to a new round of pension cuts in 2019.
And it committed to maintaining a strict budget surplus target along with new tax increases after the current bailout programme — signed in 2015 despite voters rejecting it in a referendum — ends next year.
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
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
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
