Jeremy Hunt’s budget failed to address our economic woes, a new direction is needed
The Chancellor’s promised deregulatory cull of consumer, worker and environmental protections will make matters far worse
Inequality
Jeremy Hunt delivers a big tax cut on bank profits while refusing to extend free school meals to poorest children
The surcharge on the profits of banks will be cut from 8% to 3%, which means more than a billion pounds in tax savings for banks every single year.
5 ways in which Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement failed ordinary workers and the vulnerable
The blame for 12 years of sluggish growth and deteriorating public services lies squarely with the government.
EXCLUSIVE: Half of voters think Rishi Sunak is too rich to be Prime Minister
The Prime Minister was the first front-line politician to debut on the Sunday Times Rich List earlier this year.
Diane Abbott MP: The government’s economic plans leave me fearing for my constituents
‘The cuts and tax increases that are coming must be opposed’.
Prem Sikka: The grip of big money continues to tighten over UK politics and the country is sinking
‘We can have either democracy and public accountability or rampant corporate power concentrated in the hands of a few business executives, but not both.’
Rishi Sunak proved again this week that he doesn’t understand child poverty
56% of people in poverty in the UK are in a working family and 7 in 10 children in poverty are in a family where at least one parent works.
FTSE 100 chief executives’ pay soars by 23% this year as rest of us are urged to show ‘pay restraint’
The average total pay for FTSE 100 CEOs rose to a record £3.9mn in 2021-22, up from £3.6mn in 2018-19.
Rishi Sunak grilled at PMQs for boasting about withdrawing funding from deprived urban areas
“Rather than apologise or pretend he meant something else, why doesn’t he do the right thing and undo the changes he made to those funding formula?”
EXCLUSIVE: More than 7 in 10 voters say government is not doing enough to help with the cost of living crisis, poll finds
77% of voters believe that the government is not doing enough, compared to just 17% who think that the government is doing enough.
