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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak
THE government’s handling of the coronavirus crisis is “crashing” the economy and Chancellor Rishi Sunak “cannot afford” to worsen the damage next week, Labour warned today.
The spending and tax Budget for the next financial year is set to be announced by Mr Sunak next Wednesday.
Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds said that her counterpart “faces a choice” between the “short-termist irresponsible policies” enacted by successive Tory governments and “learning from the mistakes made over the last 10 years.”
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
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
