The First Minister of Scotland urged Sir Keir Starmer to ‘be open with voters and admit where the axe will fall’.
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney has urged Labour to explain where £18 billion in cuts predicted by the Institute for Fiscal Studies will come from.
The IFS said there is a “conspiracy of silence” between Labour and the Tories over details and warned of around £18 billion of “sharp cuts”.The letter read: “It is the equivalent of cutting 130,000 nurses, 150,000 teachers and 160,000 police officers.” “Voters have a right to know where the axe would fall under the Labour Party’s plans to impose another decade of cuts.”It branded the proposed cuts “devastating for Scotland and services across the UK”.
“You have also made clear that the NHS will not get the meaningful funding boost it needs under a UK Labour Party government – but you have repeatedly refused to say which public services will be hit under your £18 billion cuts.”
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