Responding to the news that Rachel Reeves is asking Ministers to identify efficiency savings worth 5% of their current budgets, Green Party Co-Leader, Adrian Ramsay said:
“Labour call their 5% cuts across government departments “efficiency savings.”
“We call it what it is: cuts to services.
“This amounts to the continuation of the same damaging, unpopular and unnecessary policy that has, under successive governments, so devastated our country over many years.”
He continued, “Instead of stripping more money from essential front-line services that are already on their knees, Labour could and should look to tax the very richest more to raise crucial funds.
“This could act as a lifeline for key services such as our NHS.
“We remain clear, cutting services always was and still is, a political choice.”