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A DRAGONS’ Den-style competition launched by George Osborne to find ways to cut public service “waste” has been bombarded this weekend with a single suggestion — stop privatising them.
The Tory Chancellor, who wants to sell off £32 billion of public assets this year among many cuts to services, called on public-sector workers to submit ideas for cuts in their own services.
After pitching their ideas online the winning candidates will be grilled by Treasury boffins.
Burnham urged to create publicly-provided national care service before the end of the parliament, and to keep his promise to ditch neoliberalism
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
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
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES