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The Tories have just launched a major attack on workers and the poor
The government is using its own inept mishandling of the pandemic to further wreck our society for political ends — doubling down on austerity by passing the costs of Covid-19 onto ordinary people, writes DIANE ABBOTT
The Tories also intend that it will be ordinary workers who will pick up the tab for their own failings

THIS government has allowed the deaths of tens of thousands of our own citizens and its complete failure to handle the pandemic has also led to an unprecedented economic slump.

What we have seen this week is that the Tories also intend that it will be ordinary workers and the poor who will pick up the tab for their own failings.

Following on from the austerity of the Tory-led coalition, whose key measures have never been undone, we are now faced with another reduction in pay, cuts to public services and cuts to pensions.

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