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GEORGE OSBORNE’S Autumn Statement confirms his critics’ key accusation that his capitalist austerity policy is based on political choices rather than economic priorities.
His decision to scrap planned cuts to tax credits for millions of low-paid workers and to police budgets in England and Wales bear this out.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell had promised Osborne that Labour would not seek to make political capital if he agreed not to introduce unjust tax credit cuts.
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
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP