John Dickie of the Child Poverty Action Group said it would be 'outrageous' to ask vulnerable people to shoulder the UK’s stricken public finances
Campaigners and Scots politicians have demanded Tory Chancellor Jeremy Hunt ditch plans for over £30bn of public spending cuts.
“It would be outrageous to ask those struggling the most to shoulder any more of the burden of fixing the public finances. “It’s a shameful ploy from a shameful government who wouldn’t dare attack the corporate, wealthy profiteers with as much glee and gusto as they routinely attack workers. Scots Labour leader Anas Sarwar also took aim at the Tories: “For far too long the Tories have forced ordinary people to pay the price for their disastrous economic mismanagement.
SNP Shadow Chancellor Alison Thewliss said: “The Tories have trashed the UK economy with Brexit and twelve years of mismanagement – and millions of families are paying an increasingly painful price.
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