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Chancellor slashes taxes for the rich and tells Universal Credit claimants to work more

Chancellor slashes taxes for the rich and tells Universal Credit claimants to work more

‘Hard to imagine a worse response to a cost of living crisis’ The Chancellor has been widely criticised for delivering a mini-budget that is “unashamedly for the rich” after he outlined measures to get Britain through the cost-of-living crisis. Deploying the much-maligned theory of trickle-down economics, Kwasi Kwarteng abolished the top rate of income tax […]

3 years ago

‘Grotesque levels of inequality have to be tackled’

‘Grotesque levels of inequality have to be tackled’

Some people say there are no good billionaires Can billionaires and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party exist in the same timeline? One of the party’s socialists, Lloyd Russell-Moyle, said he doesn’t think so a few weeks ago. So what does the shadow chancellor of the exchequer think? John McDonnell has tried in recent years to soften […]

6 years ago

How Labour will respond to supreme court’s prorogation decision

How Labour will respond to supreme court’s prorogation decision

“The Conservative party needs to sort this out” The Tory government was rocked on Tuesday by the news that the supreme court, the highest in the land, had ruled Boris Johnson’s decision to prorogue parliament for five weeks unlawful. That decision, made unanimously by 11 supreme court judges, means that parliament will return at 11.30am […]

7 years ago