It’s time Labour became credible – Diane writes in the Morning Star  

There is no doubt that the coalition government's economic strategy will hit the poorest hardest. Despite the protestations of George “We are all in this together” Osborne and his Liberal Democrat allies, his Budget was fiercely regressive. One way of illustrating this is to examine the Budget's impact on women and families. The figures are frightening. The bulk of the impact will be felt by women. Some 72 per cent of the cuts will be met from women's income, as opposed to 28 per cent from men. There is a whole series of taxation and benefit changes that will hit women harder – reductions in entitlement to child tax credits, linking the indexation of benefits, tax credit and public service pensions to the lower consumer prices index rather than the retail price index, the cuts in housing benefit, freezing child benefit and restricting eligibility to the Sure...