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Six Budget facts Osborne doesn’t want you to know

By Sarah Pine

  It has been 24 hours since George Osborne delivered his eighth Budget – a typical Tory package of austerity that will hit the poorest hardest. The reality is buried in the small print so we have combed through the documents for you. 1....

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Osborne academies’ plan “unravelling” amid £560m black hole in schools funding, Powell warns

By Sarah Pine

  Lucy Powell has attacked Government’s “costly and disrupting” plans to turn all schools into academies as Labour published evidence showing a £560m financial “black hole” in schools funding.  The Tories announced the conversion into...

3:35 pm0

More austerity, lower wages and why we should “all be worried” – IFS’ brutal verdict on Osborne’s Budget

By Peter Edwards

British people face a longer period of lower wages and reduced living standards as spending cuts continue beyond 2020, one of Britain’s leading forecasters said today as he pulled apart George Osborne’s Budget. Paul Johnson, director of...

10:34 am0

Tory disability campaigner quits party in protest at Osborne’s cuts

By Sarah Pine

A Conservative disability campaigner has quit his role in disgust for the Tories’ cuts to disability benefits following George Osborne’s Budget. The former NHS worker left a message for the party on the Conservative Disability Group site, saying “the...

10:03 am0

McDonnell: No spending cuts, let’s change capitalism

By Peter Edwards

John McDonnell has ruled out fighting the next General Election with any plans for spending cuts, pledged more borrowing and appeared to dismiss capitalism in its current form. The shadow Chancellor said developing a fairer system of taxation would...

9:31 am0

Tories defeated in Lords over key plank of Trade Union Bill

By Conor Pope

The Conservatives’ anti-trade union plans suffered a setback last night as they suffered a “resounding defeat” in House of Lords votes. Peers voted against aspects of the Trade Union Bill that would see Labour’s funding take...

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Angela Eagle: Osborne’s Northern Powerhouse remains a myth

By Peter Edwards

  We have heard a lot in recent years from George Osborne about the so-called Northern Powerhouse. We have had a blizzard of press releases and endless photo ops with a gesticulating Chancellor in hard hat and high-vis jacket. The Chancellor mentioned...

6:00 pm0

The great capital gains tax deception shames Osborne

By Simon Franks

  There were many things in yesterday’s Budget that anyone with a sense of fairness and balance should object to. But nothing that shows more contempt for the cause of reducing structural inequality, than the cut in the Capital Gains Tax...

12:48 pm0

Kinnock: On Planet Osborne the Budget made sense, on Planet Earth the reality is hitting growth and manufacturing

By Stephen Kinnock

  Dear George, Yesterday was a new experience: my first Spring Budget as an MP – a significant “fiscal event”, in anyone’s book. No doubt you’ll have fond memories of your first budget as a backbencher, back in 2002 when a...

10:52 am0

Zac Goldsmith’s attacks on Sadiq Khan show how little he has to offer London

By Maya Goodfellow

When you have no ideas of your own, you have to go on the attack. That’s the message we can take from mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith. His recent campaign literature speaks of a politician who sees minority ethnic people as nothing but stereotypes...

7:00 am0

Corbyn and his MPs rally in opposition to typical Tory Budget

By Peter Edwards

Jeremy Corbyn hated this Budget. Of course, leaders of the Opposition generally don’t like Tory Budgets, but the anger was coursing through Corbyn as he delivered his response to the “bully” George Osborne. That meant it was a good...

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Chris Leslie: Tycoon tax cut shows Osborne’s warped priorities

By Chris Leslie

  When the headlines around the sugar tax eventually dissolve, the Budget fundamentals will leave a bitter taste for millions of households across the country. Despite an hour of hubris and obfuscation, the Chancellor couldn’t hide falling growth...

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“Osborne’s failed on every measure he has ever set himself”: John McDonnell pre-budget video

John McDonnell has called on Osborne to reverse benefit cuts in a video before today’s budget. See below for a transcript of what he said.   Today’s #Budget2016 is George Osborne’s 8th as Chancellor. He’s failed on every measure...

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Freedom is a beautiful thing: moving Unite video for LGBT history month

By Unite

For LGBT history month, Unite members have spoken about their experience fighting for equality. Trade unionists work to advance and defend equalities all year round but February is a month to shine a light on the work they do to challenge prejudice. This...

9:23 am0

McDonnell pledges clampdown on tax loopholes

Labour would clampdown on the loopholes exploited by multinational corporations that allows them to minimise the tax they pay on profits made. Speaking on Newsnight last night, John McDonnell said that “international agreements” needed to...