Greater Manchester’s Mayor Andy Burnham has described Friday’s fiscal announcement from the Government which saw £45 billion of tax cuts as a “flagrant act of vandalism on the social cohesion of this country”
Speaking to Sky News this morning ahead of the Labour Party conference opening in Liverpool,The Mayor said the statement by the Chancellor didn’t do anything meaningful to get people through the winter’
The party he said, should commit to reversing the government’s income tax cuts if they win the next election.
“Now is not the time for tax cuts”.
and added that the policies announced on Friday were “radical and deeply wrong – and I would go so far as to say immoral”.
“The most graphic demonstration we’ve ever seen of how a small number of people, a small elite, can manipulate the political system in their interest. This was a budget for bankers. This was a budget for Tory donors”
Burnham said: “I don’t know how you can justify a package like that when… the heads of millions of people are under the water.”
He added: “This is the time for Labour to move up and set our an alternative that people can support.”
