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JOHN McDONNELL notes that rising inflation will be “disastrous” for ordinary families.
The typical worker takes home around £800 a year less than they did before the bankers’ crash of 2007-8, an indictment of years of Tory economic mismanagement under the misnomer of “austerity.”
Austerity means cuts — cuts to public services, cuts to council budgets meaning cuts to local services, cuts to pay as public servants are outsourced to disreputable privateers intent on cutting costs, cuts to social security payments such as disability and sickness benefits, cuts to pensions.
If we can tackle the big issues, like delivering decent public services and affordable state-built and owned housing by making the richest pay a fair amount of tax, Labour can win back the trust and support of the electorate, argues ANDY McDONALD MP
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