Taxpayers are set to fork out £4,000 each after George Osborne’s “abject failure” to handle a cost-of-living crisis, Labour leader Ed Miliband will reveal today.
According to new independent House of Commons Library figures, Con-Dem bad management has led to revenue losses of £116.5 billion.
“For all the government’s boasts about a belated economic recovery, there are millions of families still caught in the most prolonged cost-of-living crisis for a century,” Mr Miliband will say at an event in Nottingham this morning.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba


