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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Katrine Bussey

Swinney warns Starmer and Reeves of ‘risks’ if Budget fails to end austerity

Scotland’s First Minister sent a pre-Budget message to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves (Danny Lawson/PA) -

John Swinney has challenged the UK Government to end its “failed policy of austerity” – with the Scottish First Minister insisting this is the change that people are “desperately seeking”.

The SNP leader went on to warn both Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his Chancellor Rachel Reeves that without “urgent action to rectify the damage caused by austerity” there was a “very clear risk that community cohesion across the United Kingdom could be permanently damaged”.

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