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(left to right) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. Picture date: Sunday September 22, 2024.
MOST people think Labour will fail to reduce poverty by the end of its current term in government.
Research from King’s College London (KCL) and the Fairness Foundation, published today, has found that four in 10 Labour voters expect this to be the case by 2029.
Polling carried out two weeks before the Budget also found a third of the public expects their standard of living will fall over the next five years.
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
