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First Minister John Swinney during a visit to the Reconnect Howden Park Centre in Howden, Livingston, while on the General Election campaign trail, June 8, 2024
LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer is “planning to take an axe to public services” after the election, according to the SNP.
Think tank the Institute of Fiscal Studies accused both Tories and Labour of a “conspiracy of silence” last week after it calculated that the “fiscal rules” each have committed to could result in £18 billion in cuts to public spending over the lifetime of the next parliament should they be kept.
Writing to the Labour leader, SNP leader John Swinney has now challenged Sir Keir to admit his cuts plans, adding: “Voters have a right to know where the axe would fall under the Labour Party’s plans to impose another decade of cuts.”
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
