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Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard
SCOTS will continue to endure “low-paid, insecure work” thanks to Philip Hammond’s Spring Statement, Richard Leonard said yesterday.
The Scottish Labour leader attacked the Chancellor for sticking to his dogma of “tax cuts for big business and the rich, and public spending cuts for the rest of us.”
He said: “It’s time the economy started working for people, rather than people working for the economy.
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society
Ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections, ROZ FOYER warns that a bold tax policy is needed to rebuild devastated public services which can serve as the foundation of a strong, fair economy