TORY ministers plan to spend £5 million of taxpayers’ cash on a propaganda campaign to promote their so-called “national living wage,” the Morning Star can reveal.
The vast sum is to be spent on advertising the Chancellor’s pay “con-trick” across Britain before its implementation on April 1.
The government insists it’s necessary to inform workers of the scheme, but Labour has accused ministers of “false advertising” that risks damaging the real living wage campaign.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
PHILIP ENGLISH says military spending will not create the jobs young people need — instead, build an economy based around needs, not profit
In part IV of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells how austerity minister Francis Maude’s attempt to destroy the PCS Civil Service union totally backfired
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


