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Angela Rayner on Starmer, strikes and succession

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The Welfare State Is a Part of Fiscal Responsibility

If labor had done this, you'd have been absolutely slated. We could do tax courtsers a hundred billion. I used to be a home careo, looked after the elderly. If they're living in freezing conditions over the winter because they're worried about their bills, that will cost us more. So it's actually a false economy not to create a good welfare network for people. And our economy isa already tardy of fiscal responsibility, not weltand well.

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