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Tory mugger of the poor George Osborne brazenly announced a big handout to businesses and well-to-do people in his Budget yesterday.
He announced a vicious cap on welfare spending for years ahead, along with a further tightening of the screw on public spending.
The total cost of benefits will be capped at £119 billion in 2015-16, and will only rise in line with inflation thereafter.
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
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
