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These cuts betray Labour’s basic principles
The decision to cut billions from support for vulnerable people while refusing to tax the wealthy shows how far our party has drifted from its core purpose, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
LABOUR PRINCIPLES: I didn’t join the Labour Party to cut welfare for people who desperatly need help, says Brian Leishman MP (centre)

THE planned cuts to welfare is a defining moment for this government.

Keir Starmer has a political choice to make — does he dish up more of the same austerity that the Conservatives inflicted on the most disadvantaged people in our society, or does he do the right thing and look after our most vulnerable citizens?

Last summer, people who voted for a Labour government believed they were voting for “change.” A change from the cruel policies of austerity that have created gross inequality. A change from austerity that more than 330,000 excess deaths have been attributed to by an academic study.

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