Reeves denies welfare cuts will increase poverty amid warning poorest set to be £500 a year worse off – UK politics live
The Resolution Foundation says the UK’s poorest will be £500 a year worse off by the end of the parliament due to the spring statementRachel Reeves was on Sky News earlier. Asked about the DWP analysis saying the benefit cuts will push another 250,000 people into poverty, Reeves said this would not happen, because that analysis did not take account of the impact of more people getting into work. She made this argument at her press conference yesterday, but was even stronger in her words this morning.She said:I am absolutely certain that our reforms, instead of pushing people into poverty, are going to get people into work.And we know that if you move from welfare into work, you are much less likely to be in poverty.You came into the job promising change – one word on the Labour manifesto. Was it our mistake not to understand that change under Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, meant cuts for benefits for the poorest, cuts to pensioners’ winter fuel allowance, cuts to overseas aid, a squeeze on public spending, a huge new tax rise on jobs, large scale redundancies amongst public officials, and big increases in the council tax. Is that what change meant.NHS waiting lists down for five months, rolling out free breakfast clubs in primary schools, the national living wage going up by £1,400 pounds from next week, 2.5% of GDP spent on defence, including £2.2bn pounds invested next year, record housebuilding, the highest level of housebuilding for 40 years. That’s the change that we promised, that’s the change that we are delivering. Continue reading...
The Resolution Foundation says the UK’s poorest will be £500 a year worse off by the end of the parliament due to the spring statement
Rachel Reeves was on Sky News earlier. Asked about the DWP analysis saying the benefit cuts will push another 250,000 people into poverty, Reeves said this would not happen, because that analysis did not take account of the impact of more people getting into work. She made this argument at her press conference yesterday, but was even stronger in her words this morning.
She said:
I am absolutely certain that our reforms, instead of pushing people into poverty, are going to get people into work.
And we know that if you move from welfare into work, you are much less likely to be in poverty.
You came into the job promising change – one word on the Labour manifesto. Was it our mistake not to understand that change under Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves, meant cuts for benefits for the poorest, cuts to pensioners’ winter fuel allowance, cuts to overseas aid, a squeeze on public spending, a huge new tax rise on jobs, large scale redundancies amongst public officials, and big increases in the council tax. Is that what change meant.
NHS waiting lists down for five months, rolling out free breakfast clubs in primary schools, the national living wage going up by £1,400 pounds from next week, 2.5% of GDP spent on defence, including £2.2bn pounds invested next year, record housebuilding, the highest level of housebuilding for 40 years. That’s the change that we promised, that’s the change that we are delivering. Continue reading...
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