Momentum Statement on the Chancellor’s Spring Statement

This statement was published by Momentum on 26 March 2025.

Balancing the books on the most vulnerable in society was not in the Party’s manifesto, nor is it what voters voted for when they looked to Labour to deliver change after years of Tory chaos.

Cuts to welfare payments and public services, slashing international aid, maintaining the two-child benefit cap and taking away Winter Fuel Payments from millions of pensioners: it’s clear the Labour Government is continuing down the path of Tory austerity.

Increasing military spending to fund war overseas and meeting arbitrary fiscal targets rather than investing heavily in our public services does not deliver for working class communities.

We need a Labour Government that will champion real Labour values. That means redistributing power and wealth whilst standing against the far right.