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Labour insists that Balls policies will help low-paid
Labour would boost low-paid workers’ incomes if it won the election, it insisted yesterday after taking flak from affiliated trade unions.
A party spokesman said that shadow chancellor Ed Balls would “balance the books in a fairer way” if Labour was elected in May.
The statement was issued to the Star after a trio of trade union leaders criticised Labour’s plans for “austerity-lite” during the TUC’s Britain Needs a Pay Rise rally on Saturday.
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