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BUDGET 2021: On balance, a Labour government

Pattrick Smellie
Thu, 20 May 2021

This is a classic, almost old-style Labour budget, which its opponents will characterise as “spend, spend, spend”.
Pattrick Smellie
Thu, 20 May 2021
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The first budget from the first majority government of the MMP era has emphatically answered the question its most peeved and restive supporters had been asking.That question was: ‘is this really a Labour government?’The answer, delivered in the budget and most emphatically in raising social welfare benefits – is a clear ’yes’.Excluding pensions, the benefit increases to levels recommended by the Welfare Expert Advisory Group allow Grant Robertson to trumpet “the biggest lift in benefits in more than a genera...

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