There is no economic case for austerity. Here’s why.
‘The last twelve years of cuts in public spending, have failed to deliver economic growth, prosperity, or resilience to household budgets.’
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PMQs: Rishi Sunak refuses to commit to raising benefits and pensions in line with inflation
Rishi Sunak dodged the question on benefits and pensions from the SNP’s Ian Blackford
Diane Abbott MP: Britain can’t afford a cull of civil servants
‘Decimating the numbers of civil servants will only deepen various crises’
Pressure mounts on Rishi Sunak over reappointment of Suella Braverman
Backlash grows over the prime minister’s decision to reinstall Braverman as home secretary just six days after she was forced out for a security breach.
What next, now Rishi Sunak is prime minister?
Sunak might be seen to have more political nous than his two disgraced predecessors, but he’s an ideologically right-wing Tory from the right of the party. The fact that he’s presented as a pragmatic centrist shows how far to the right the party has swung.
Even Nadine Dorries thinks Rishi Sunak is wrong not to attend COP27 as she clashes with Jacob Rees-Mogg
Sunak has also demoted the climate minister, kicking Graham Stuart out of Cabinet.
Therese Coffey in car crash interview when asked what she does in her own life to look after the environment
“Don’t worry about the rivers everyone. Therese Coffey is on the case. She’ll scoop out all that pollution with her permanent reusable cups.”
Ex-Tory chair tears into Suella Braverman saying she committed ‘multiple breaches’ of ministerial code
“From my own knowledge there were multiple breaches of the ministerial code”
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?”
Wera Hobhouse MP: Truss is gone, but Trussonomics lives on in a Bill that will destroy independent financial regulation
While we have witnessed the drama and turbulence of recent weeks, a process of comparable significance to our economic future has been quietly proceeding in the background.