Barber drew a parallel with the upsurge in mass opposition the Thatcher Government’s ill fated poll tax in the early 1990’s ‘The poll tax was a flagship policy and hugely unpopular. As a result, all over the country ordinary people were deeply opposed to it. Once the cuts start to bite, you'll start to see a similar reaction. The poll tax offended the British people's basic sense of what's fair. So will the spending cuts’.
The Government’s austerity programme will be the dominant issue at next week’s Congress.
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