LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales
The Tories’ poverty Budget: will Labour do better?
We know the Conservatives stand for cuts, destitution, and hungry children – it’s time for Labour to announce the policies that will do the opposite, writes KIM JOHNSON MP
Liverpool Trades Council has unveiled a ‘People’s Budget’ to fight £56m cuts and council tax rises. DEAN YOUNG reports
Labour’s by-election defeat tells a story Scotland has known since 2008. A party that assumes loyalty while offering little more than managed decline will eventually discover that voters always have somewhere else to turn, says MATT KERR
KENNY MacASKILL reminds us of the unprecedented political career of a Scottish miner’s militant son who stayed the course and true to his roots
by Henry Fowler, General Strike 100 project co-ordinator
‘Solidarity with the Cuban people’s revolution is our overriding priority,’ international secretary KEVAN NELSON told the Communist Party’s political committee on Wednesday
TOMORROW’S Budget looks highly likely to confirm that the government has given up any remaining pretence of a plan to tackle child poverty.
Instead, we’ll see more Tory tax breaks for the rich — including cuts to inheritance tax and lifting the cap on bankers’ bonuses — while squeezing the benefits of those hardest hit by the soaring cost-of-living crisis.
Economic growth has reduced to a snail’s pace. The Tories have left us with record debt levels, taxes at a 70-year high, and decimated public services for the foreseeable future.
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The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
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
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
