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Labour leader Keir Starmer during the Labour Party local elections campaign launch at the Black Country & Marches Institute of Technology in Dudley, March 28, 2024
THE government has wasted more than £8 billion in taxpayers’ cash through its U-turns, by-elections and the scrapping of the northern section of HS2, analysis reveals.
The Labour Party, which published the analysis last night, dubbed the wasted cash the Tories’ “cost of chaos bill.”
Costs included £4.1bn in extra mortgage fees, which started following the brief but disastrous reign of Liz Truss and continued under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and £2 million in the costs of staging by-elections following the departure of Tory MPs.
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
MARTIN HALL passes time in the sanguine company of a traditional conservative, recalling their disastrous governments
