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CUTS-obsessed Chancellor George Osborne was exposed yesterday for wrecking Britain’s chances of wiping out the deficit by holding down wages.
Experts revealed the Tory’s war on wages has robbed the Treasury of £33.4 billion since 2010 — more than the amount he plans to raise by cutting public spending to 1930s levels after the election.
The government’s own Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) predicted the sum would have been collected in income tax by workers enjoying pay rises.
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
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