Analysis has shown that only the richest 5 per cent will see their incomes grow next year as a result of the Government’s economic plan
biggest programme of tax cuts for 50 years
Alastair Rose, 44-year-old from Glasgow, has a neurological disability due to complications from spinal surgery, entitling him to ESA and PIP . He is yet to receive his £150 disability cost of living payment, introduced by former-chancellor Rishi Sunak, to which all PIP recipients are entitled. “Growing up in the Thatcher years was bad enough. Now it is happening again.” “Ordinary people are being abandoned in favour of the rich,” she added.
Describing the chancellor’s “trickle-down economics” as a “proven failure”, she argued that long-term growth “can only be achieved by investing in health, education and the people of this country.”Scope“The £150 put forward by the Government won’t touch the sides,” the charity’s director of strategy, James Taylor, said. “Even with freezing the price cap, energy bills will have doubled in a year.
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