🔴 In an explosive joint letter to Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish ministers accused the UK Government of cutting tax for the wealthiest “without any credible explanation of how these will be paid for.”
They warned that failing to act was “putting services at risk” across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
“We have made clear that inflation has already eroded the devolved budget settlements announced last October yet you have refused to provide a single additional penny for public services or to increase public sector pay,” the letter read. “It remains the case that additional funding is urgently needed from the UK Government to support our vital public services in the face of rising prices, energy costs and wage pressures. Our budgets are already stretched beyond the maximum and as responsible governments we are having to make very difficult decisions to balance our budgets, as we do not have the flexibility or borrowing powers that the UK Government has. This approach is unlikely to be sustainable and is putting services at risk.
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