Austerity News

See who’s saying what on Austerity and how different sections of the Press approach the same story.

Rough sleeping in London hits record high after ‘appalling spike’ in homelessness

PMQs erupts into laughter as Theresa May repeats her ‘broken promise’ that austerity is ending

Three universities on the brink of BANKRUPTCY: Institutions take last-gasp survival loans and consult on shutting departments as student numbers plunge

The tax sting hidden in the Budget small print: Half of £730 saving for four million higher-rate taxpayers will be clawed BACK by Treasury in NI contributions (but Chancellor didn’t mention that in his speech) in the Daily Mail

Stealth NI rise to nullify half of Philip Hammond’s budget tax cuts in The Telegraph

Police to sue government unless it backs down over cuts in The Guardian

Chancellor’s budget boost to NHS frontline conceals £1bn cut in The Guardian

Repairs bill for crumbling NHS hospitals hits £3bn amid backlash against Chancellor’s spending plans in The Independnet

Low earners gain little from Hammond’s £3bn tax giveaway in The Guardian

Budget 2018: Boost for social care not as generous as it sounds in The Times

Budget 2018 giveaways will benefit rich families 14 TIMES more than the poor in the Daily Mirror

‘Austerity is over,’ says Philip Hammond as £12 billion windfall sees spending increase in The Telegraph

Philip Hammond delivers tax cut bonanza to higher earners in The Guardian

Philip Hammond slashes income tax for 32 MILLION in END TO AUSTERITY in the Daily Express

Hammond no longer on track to balance budget, says OBR in The Guardian

Number of homeless households moved out of London soars in The Guardian

True scale of female homelessness ‘likely to be significantly worse than official records show’ in The Independent

Depression overtakes obesity on GP list of most common illnesses in The Times

Esther McVey ‘dismissed evidence’ of pain caused by universal credit in The Times

Universal Credit could leave disabled people £300 A MONTH worse off in the Daily Mirror

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