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England’s 10 poorest council areas are being punished with funding cuts 16 times more severe than those made in Tory heartlands, Labour revealed yesterday.
Government support has been slashed by £782 for every home in the deprived local authorities since the Con-Dems came to power.
Families in Liverpool, Hackney, Newham, Manchester, Knowsley, Blackpool, Tower Hamlets, Middlesbrough, Birmingham and Hull have felt the worst effects of coalition cuts. All but one of the councils is run by Labour.
The real welfare dependency is at the top of our society, says ALAN SIMPSON
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP