“We Want This Government to Have the Guts To Cancel The Cut And Throw Working Families A Lifeline.”

UNIVERSAL CREDIT CUT - Action for children reacts to PM’s conference speech & cut to Universal Credit

Director of policy and campaigns at Action for Children, Imran Hussain, said: “While today is a big day for the Prime Minister, it’s a grim day for working families hit by the cut to Universal Credit.

“The Prime Minister talks about having the guts to tackle big societal problems. We want this government to have the guts to cancel the cut and throw working families a lifeline.

“Make no mistake, families on modest wages keeping their heads above water are going to be pushed under by this; we’re talking about hairdressers, care workers and shop workers.

“They’re being squeezed by a £20-a-week cut and squeezed by soaring food, fuel and energy prices. Three quarters of children living in poverty in the UK are in working families¹ and as our recent research² shows this cut will compound previous benefits losses from the past decade.

“There’s no road to levelling up the country that starts with making more children cold and hungry this winter.”

ABC Note: The outpouring by hundreds of organisations against the Universal Credit cut to the £20 uplift has been unpresidented. Boris Johnson has united the country in a way WW2 did, but this time against OUR leader not that of Nazi Germany.

There were 4.3 million children living in poverty in the UK in 2019-20.1 That's 31 per cent of children, or nine in a classroom of 30.2. 49 per cent of children living in lone-parent families are in poverty.