The government has reached a landmark of time spent in power – and this has been ‘celebrated’ in an unusual way. The TUC (Trades Union Congress) has listed 100 cuts affecting poor families to mark the coalition's first 100 days. The union organisation gave as examples the cancellation of an expanded free school meal programme and literacy help for children with learning difficulties as evidence that the pain of repaying the huge national deficit was not being equally spread. The TUC is asking for all future Budget cuts to meet a 'fairness test'.
