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Daily Mirror
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Ben Glaze

'Use Tory tax cut cash to pay carers a decent wage', says Labour's Andy Burnham

Cash lavished on Tory tax cuts for the rich should have been used to boost carers’ pay, Andy Burnham fumed tonight.

Addressing a fringe event hosted by the Future Social Care Coalition, the Greater Manchester Metro Mayor lashed out at last week’s Budget which axed the bankers’ bonuses cap and scrapped the 45p top rate of tax.

The former Health Secretary told delegates: “That thing we saw on Friday was obscene, immoral, awful - just throwing money at the richest people in the country.

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