Siptu: Labour should pull out if budget cuts loom

Siptu president Jack O’Connor has said Labour should withdraw from Government if the public finances remain on their current trajectory and working people are still not protected from further cuts in the next budget.

Siptu: Labour should pull out if budget cuts loom

He made the comments after giving a speech to trade unionists at the party’s leadership hustings.

During that speech, he claimed the only effective opposition to the austerity agenda had been “exerted by the Labour Party from within Government”.

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