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“So unless we’re undoing Brexit and can undo the pandemic it’s unclear what exactly the Government means by this,” Dave Penman said.

“The rusting bridge is a metaphor of the damage the Conservatives have done to our city since 2010."

Economist Nicolas Stern said "premature austerity" would prevent poorer households from going green.

Wales has lost £375m a year in EU economic aid, sparking warnings from ministers of a return to austerity.

A report by the National Audit Office (NAO) found that the pandemic had “laid bare existing fault lines within society and has exacerbated inequalities”.

In 2018 a UN report found that drastic cuts to social support and welfare damaged the very fabric of British society.

“Buried in the Treasury’s Budget document, and entirely unmentioned in the Chancellor’s speech to the House of Commons, was a £4 billion a year cut to planned public service spending from 2022−23."

Even before the pandemic, Boris Johnson said he didn’t want to hear “that word” again. So, what are they saying instead?

UN analysis had “pointed to the systematic failings of the UK welfare system that have left people in hardship and crisis”.