Speaking in response to the UK government's budget today, Chief of UK Advocacy at Christian Aid Sophie Powell said:
“This budget demonstrates a poverty of ideas.
“The Chancellor has made a deliberate choice to tie the government’s own hands rather than mobilise the resources needed to address the spiralling, and inter-connected, crises of inequality and climate change.
“He should have taxed the wealthiest and the biggest polluters to fund the UK’s fair share of international climate finance. He should have agreed to cancel debts for the poorest countries. That is the ambition we so urgently need, not the same old pretence of there being no other way.”
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