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GEORGE OSBORNE is “turning back the clock” on women’s rights, Labour charged yesterday after research showed mothers and pensioners will be disproportionately affected by his Budget.
Analysis from the House of Commons library showed that 86 per cent of “savings” from tax and benefit measures between 2010 and 2020 will have come from women’s pockets.
And Women’s Budget Group (WBG) research, which also factored in public services, found that female-headed households will see the larges drop in living standards by 2020.
Comments from Matt Goodwin and Danny Kruger expose a reactionary vision in which falling birth rates are blamed on women, says JUDITH CAZORLA
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
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families