"Workers need immediate change that they can touch and feel, not numbers on a spreadsheet."
Tag: Spring Statement
Kim Johnson writes to Rachel Reeves Challenging the Cuts to Disability Support Welfare Cuts
"Why can those with the broadest shoulders not bear a fair cost of recovery – a 2% tax on those with assets over £10m would raise £24bn a year – instead of putting the burden entirely on those who can least afford it."
“No money for the poor, endless money for war”: Jeremy Corbyn and Independent Alliance on Spring Statement
"These cruel cuts are not just robbing the most vulnerable people of security. They are robbing them of dignity: and the government should be ashamed of the hateful rhetoric they have fuelled."
“Plunging millions into poverty and despair” – left and labour movement responds to Sunak’s Spring Statement
Left and Labour movement voices respond to Rishi Sunak's budget, and it's failure to address the cost-of-living crisis plunging millions into poverty.
‘Tinkering around the edges’ – Unite responds to the #SpringStatement
Unite has slammed chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement today, which the union has said does not go anywhere near far enough to tackle an unprecedented cost of living crisis.
The #SpringStatement was a let down for millions needing support in this crisis – Apsana Begum MP
The government has shown it is incapable of tackling the crisis we face - Apsana Begum MP responds to the #SpringStatement
Rebecca Long Bailey interview – Sunak did nothing for millions facing deepening poverty & inequality. #SpringStatement
On Thursday we interviewed Rebecca Long Bailey MP on the Spring Statement Rishi Sunak had just presented to Parliament amid the deepening cost-of-living and energy crises.
The cost-of-living crisis is worsening by the day, we need action – Imran Hussain MP ahead of the #SpringStatement
"With the scale of this crisis worsening by the day, the Government must ease the suffering felt in our communities through three simple measures, all of which are supported by economists and politicians across the political spectrum."
Stop the decline: NHS needs £20bn now – John Lister, SOS NHS, ahead of the #SpringStatement
"As Rishi Sunak prepares his Spring Budget statement, the NHS is now being plunged another massive period of austerity" - John Lister, SOS NHS.
Sunak will ignore the deep-seated short-termism at the heart of this crisis – The Institute of Employment Rights ahead of the #SpringStatement
"Spiralling inflation will be described as if it was a natural phenomenon, all to justify a tightening of belts for working people, a further squeeze on benefits and stagnating pay" - The IER ahead of the #SpringStatement