The group has launched its ‘Big Solution’ to the looming £100 million annual deficit, which involves a pay cut for top States earners, turning some States operations into separate businesses, cutting management and administration posts, working closer together with Guernsey and cutting benefits.

Small Society member John Henwood, who has campaigned for years on cutting States costs, says that ministerial plans to fill the funding gap with £50 million worth of cuts and £50 million worth of new taxes is the wrong way forward.

• Read the full report in today’s JEP

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