Out-of-touch chancellor is sacrificing public services for personal popularity

Responding to comments by the chancellor today (Thursday) that two years of public spending ‘discipline’ will be needed to deliver his 1% tax cut in 2024, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
“The chancellor’s mask has slipped. A tax cut two years away ​​won’t help anyone struggling to make ends meet now. ​But it will mean cutting back essential public services and the wages of the hard-working peo