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The money behind Labour’s ideological welfare cuts
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DON’T BLAME CLAIMANTS: People take part in a protest outside the Treasury ahead of the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, demanding taxes on the super-rich instead of welfare cuts, London, March 25

IT IS shocking to see Labour balancing the books on the backs of the poor and disabled. Even the cowed and compliant Labour MPs are wondering why Keir Starmer’s Cabinet claims there is a financial emergency that can only be solved by taking away PIP money or universal credit rather than taxing the rich.

But look at the register of MPs’ interests and it becomes perfectly obvious this is the fault of the poor and disabled themselves.

For example, Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that between now and December 2025 a company called OPD Group Ltd will be giving £53,000 in four instalments to help pay for “staffing costs in my constituency office.”

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