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Rutherglen Constituency MSP, Clare Haughey, has said that the first 100 days of the UK Labour Government is destined to be remembered as a period of “cuts and chaos”.

During their first 100 days, the new UK Government has removed the Winter Fuel Payment from nearly 900,000 Scottish pensioners, thousands of children are estimated to have been pushed into poverty by Labour’s refusal to scrap benefit caps and the bedroom tax, and the average household will see a £149 rise in their energy bills.

Since the election in July, the new Prime Minister’s approval ratings – a measure determined by a survey of the general public – have plunged, with nearly two-thirds of Scots asked saying that they disapprove of the Labour Government’s record.

Commenting. Clare Haughey said;

“By any measure, Starmer’s government has made a dreadful start – which even their most loyal supporters would struggle to defend.

“Labour promised change, but instead we’ve had 100 days of chaos and cuts.

“Whether they have lost their Winter Fuel Payment, seen soaring energy bills, or been one of the 10,000 children estimated to have fallen into poverty since Sir Keir took office – the only change for many in Rutherglen and Cambuslang has been for the worse.

“The fact is that Labour’s record of austerity and cuts increasingly looks like a carbon copy of the previous Tory government’s.

“Our public services, most vulnerable households, and working families have already been paying the price for Westminster austerity for the past 14 years.

“The upcoming UK Budget has to be a major reset.  Labour must reverse the winter fuel payments cuts, scrap the Tory rules that are keeping families in poverty, and break the vicious cycle of underinvestment in our public services.”

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