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SHAMELESS George Osborne claimed yesterday that an economic slump required even more spending cuts — after boasting that he had “fixed” Britain’s economy.
The Tory Chancellor promised in his latest budget that there would be “no rollercoaster ride in public spending” because strong tax receipts showed the “recovery is firmly entrenched.”
But now he has put Britain’s poorest on notice that they will be hammered again in next month’s Budget.
Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
Fiery words from the Bard in Blackpool and Edinburgh, and Evidence Based Punk Rock from The Protest Family
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