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Time to put the final nail in the coffin of austerity
The immediate priority must be a general election and the replacement of the Tories by a genuinely anti-cuts government, says ROBERT GRIFFITHS

THIS weekend’s demonstrations against the Tory government should unite everybody on them around the slogan “End austerity now!”
It is important now to escalate the campaigning that has given cuts in public services and social and welfare spending a deservedly bad name — such a bad name, indeed, that nobody wants to defend austerity in public any longer, even while continuing to support it.
Ex-chancellor Philip Hammond first announced that austerity was coming to end when unveiling his Budget in October last year.
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