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DAVID CAMERON wants to inflict further austerity “on a scale not yet seen,” TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady will warn today at the TUC northern region’s biennial conference.
Ms O’Grady, the keynote speaker this afternoon, will say that north-east England has suffered some of the harshest public-sector cuts under Mr Cameron’s government and that workers’ living standards have taken a hammering.
She will call for more construction of affordable housing in the region and for urgent investment in high-skill, high-wage jobs.
Ms O’Grady will say: “Public services throughout the region have been cut to the bone.
“Here in Newcastle, the council has had to cope with budget losses of more than 40 per cent over the last six years and has lost 2,200 staff since 2010.
“What is truly scary is that Mr Cameron wants to unleash more years of austerity on a scale not yet seen. Workers in north-east England have already endured the longest squeeze on living standards since Queen Victoria sat on the throne.”
