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Next week’s pre-budget report offers the chancellor a good opportunity to reassert the government’s commitment to fairness and social responsibility.

We will be looking for a package that protects jobs, homes, pensions and living standards of working people.

We will be calling for public investment to create and sustain jobs, a windfall tax on energy companies to help the lower paid with fuel bills, a halt to house repossessions and changes to tax and benefits.

And we shall be looking for medium term measures that reduce the economy’s dependence on financial speculation and redirect investment into productive industry and public services.