"This budget must be a living standards budget. Households up and down the country [are] still suffering a painful Tory pay hangover leaving this Labour government with lots of ground to make up."
"If growth is your priority, prove it make hard choices for it. Against opposition, against short-term politics. Be it "
Unions urged the chancellor to focus on raising living standards by targeting child poverty and increasing the national minimum wage amid business pressure to alter employment rights. The TUC demanded a living-standards budget to relieve households whose incomes have stagnated for more than a decade. Union analysis found working people were only £12 a week better off since 2008, with average real wage growth of 0.04% annually under the Conservative government and no increase for public service workers. The TUC called for lower energy bills and full removal of the two-child benefit cap, while business groups pushed for welfare and state pension cost reductions and employment rights reform.
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