Why Rishi Sunak’s budget failed on climate change
Faced with a choice of setting out an ambitiously green budget, on the eve of a global climate summit that the government will be hosting, Rishi Sunak opted for business as usual.
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Diane Abbott MP: ‘Sunak is another Tory chancellor playing the role of Robin Hood in reverse’
‘The Resolution Foundation put it succinctly, ‘On taxes, by 2027 average households will be paying £3,000 more in taxes than when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister.’
Unions must have a role in government’s plans to ‘build back better’ says TUC
With Britain facing a cost-of-living crisis, Frances O’Grady is calling on the chancellor to work with unions and focus the Spending Review on improving pay and conditions.
Final day of furlough: ‘Westminster is inflicting a perfect storm of catastrophes’
A cut to Universal Credit, rising fuel and food prices, the end of the cap on energy bills – and now the government has ended the furlough scheme
Tory heavyweights’ revolt to block Universal Credit cut rejected
A backbench rebellion over fallout over plans to scrap benefit payment uplift has been rejected, saving Johnson from a potentially humiliating Commons’ showdown
Universal credit cut breaches human rights law, says UN envoy
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that the universal credit cut will impose the ‘biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the foundation of the modern welfare state.’
Rishi Sunak’s plans to take £1.2bn from miners’ pensions dubbed ‘daylight robbery’ from ‘brave men’
Scrapping plans give miners £1.2 billion in pensions has been called “cruel” and a “kick in the teeth” to retired miners and their families.
Revealed: Chancellor’s secret wave of austerity on the horizon
Britain may be headed for a new period of Tory austerity, according to IFS analysis
Tory ‘levelling up’ fund is leaving some of the poorest in Scotland behind
The SNP have slammed the government for depriving some of the poorest Scots of funding in the scandal-hit ‘levelling up’ scheme.
Spending Review: Just some of the times Tory ministers pledged to keep the aid budget intact
One minister promised his ‘good pal’ the Chancellor wouldn’t be cutting the aid budget only in September…