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22 Jun 2010

Environmentalists not impressed with Osborne's gestures

Environmental analysts are less than impressed with the green credentials of the government's emergency budget statement in the House of Commons today.
22 Jun 2010

Poor have missed out in Chancellor's plans, says Oxfam

The government has missed an opportunity to raise more money to protect the poorest in the UK from spending cuts and VAT rises, and help tackle global poverty and climate change, says Oxfam.
22 Jun 2010

Poorest are picking up banking bill in Budget say tax campaigners

Campaigners have said that the Chancellor's bank tax is 'disappointing' and that the budget is 'taking from the poor to give to the rich'.
22 Jun 2010

Union leader says emergency budget fails the fairness test

The Budget got the big judgement about the economy wrong and cannot live up to substantial claims to be fair, says Trades Union Congress General Secretary Brendan Barber.
22 Jun 2010

Cuts 'destructive and unnecessary', says the Green Party

Green Party leader Caroline Lucas MP has challenged the basic logic of the Coalition Government's massive public spending cuts, saying they are both "destructive and unnecessary."
22 Jun 2010

Looking beneath and beyond Mr Osborne's rhetoric

Amid the welter of statistics and analysis which is pouring forth around Chancellor George Osborne's emergency budget, those who care for social justice should not let their eyes stray from the sleights of hand that rest at its core.
22 Jun 2010

Digging ourselves into further recession?

In the run-up to the government's 'emergency budget', the overwhelming political consensus, parroted each day by the BBC’s economic correspondents, is that ’balancing the budget’ and ’slashing the deficit’ is now a national priority.
22 Jun 2010

Churches and poverty action group urge government to make tax fairer

Leaders from the Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches, together with Church Action on Poverty (CAP), have called on the chancellor to opt for fairer taxes today.
8 Jun 2010

Cameron's cuts: We're not all in this together

David Cameron has said the government's massive cuts will be delivered in a way that “strengthens and unites the country”. His words remind me of his colleague's George Osborne's claim that, when it comes to tackling the economic situation, “we're all in this together”.
25 Mar 2010

Government misses target to halve child poverty

The government appears likely to miss its target of halving child poverty by 2010 by at least 600,000 children, according to figures given in yesterday's budget and highlighted by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG).

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