Ed Balls: 'Working people £1,600 a year worse off'
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has outlined as six point budget plan, saying that the stakes are high for next week's announcement because "working people are on average £1,600 a year worse off".
Ed Balls: 'Working people £1,600 a year worse off'
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has outlined as six point budget plan, saying that the stakes are high for next week's announcement because "working people are on average £1,600 a year worse off".
Writing in the Sunday Mirror, Mr Balls said: "We can all expect George Osborne and David Cameron to try and claim everything is going well. But that’s totally out of touch when millions of working people on middle and lower incomes are not feeling any recovery at all."
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