Labour MPs grumbling over cuts to winter fuel payment and the 'freebies' row looms over the Chancellor's Budget
Labour MPs grumbling over cuts to winter fuel payment and the 'freebies' row looms over the Chancellor's Budgetthat will impose sweeping tax and spending changes on the country, its two architects were out of the country this week on official business.Meanwhile, Sir Keir Starmer has been enjoying a rather more glamorous time at the Commonwealth summit in far-flung Samoa.
questions over whether Britain should consider paying reparations to countries whose inhabitants were caught up in the slave trade. Many Labour MPs see this is a make-or-break moment for the Government, one which will – if things go right – sweep away the shaky start and reset the mood in Westminster and among the public at large.
The Government is widely believed to have engaged in deliberately pessimistic expectation management, with briefings of sharp tax rises, painful cuts to public spending and an increase in borrowing – which most in Labour hope and believe will prove too gloomy.
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