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The Tories’ poverty Budget: will Labour do better?
We know the Conservatives stand for cuts, destitution, and hungry children – it’s time for Labour to announce the policies that will do the opposite, writes KIM JOHNSON MP
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ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week
STEPHEN ARNELL wonders at the family resemblance between former prince Andrew and his great-uncle ‘Dickie’
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The Labour leadership’s narrow definition of ‘working people’ leads to distorted and unjust Budget calculations, where the unearned income of the super-wealthy doesn’t factor in at all, argues JON TRICKETT MP
TOMORROW’S Budget looks highly likely to confirm that the government has given up any remaining pretence of a plan to tackle child poverty.
Instead, we’ll see more Tory tax breaks for the rich — including cuts to inheritance tax and lifting the cap on bankers’ bonuses — while squeezing the benefits of those hardest hit by the soaring cost-of-living crisis.
Economic growth has reduced to a snail’s pace. The Tories have left us with record debt levels, taxes at a 70-year high, and decimated public services for the foreseeable future.
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