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GEORGE OSBORNE’S Budget will keep Britain in the “same old circle of a failing economy,” his Labour opposite number said yesterday.
Interviewed on the eve of Budget day in the airy food court of Portcullis House, shadow chancellor John McDonnell said Mr Osborne’s ambition was now taking centre stage after Boris Johnson became the favourite to succeed PM David Cameron.
Labour expects Mr Osborne to wheel out “the usual lines of attack” over Labour’s record and dependence on borrowing.
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
Austerity in a red tie is still austerity, warns RAMONA McCARTNEY of the People’s Assembly – rally with us to demand different choices
Our two-tear Chancellor’s woes at PMQs caused a multimillion-pound sinking feeling on the bond market, writes ANDREW MURRAY
There is no doubt that Trump’s regime is a right-wing one, but the clash between the state apparatus and the national and local government is a good example of what any future left-wing formation will face here in Britain, writes NICK WRIGHT