Thousands of union activists and other campaigners will join a rally in Westminster to protest against the Government's spending cuts, amid warnings that they will make Britain a more unequal and "nastier" country.
Union leaders, anti-poverty campaigners and actors will be among protesters warning that Wednesday's Comprehensive Spending Review will lead to job losses, pay cuts and reductions in public services.
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber will tell the rally that the Government's cuts programme was a political choice, not an economic necessity, that will make Britain "a more unequal, more squalid and nastier country."
He will say: "The UK is a hard working country that can generate the tax that can fill the deficit gap, that can create the jobs that a lost generation of young people need, and that can meet the challenges that we face as a society - from moving to a low-carbon economy to eliminating child poverty.
"At worst the cuts will plunge us back into recession, and at best they will condemn us to lost years of high unemployment and growth so weak that the deficit may well stay high."
The rally will bring together a broad coalition of union members, community leaders, campaign groups and users of public services, and will be followed by a lobby of MPs inside Parliament.
Source ITN
