Society’s poorest: Knives out against PM’s callousness

 

Reports are coming in that a Tory revolt is now  threatening Prime Minister Boris Johnson with defeat over his divisive plans to cut up to £1,000 a year from Universal Credit payments.

The Northern Research Group (NRG) of MPs is calling for the continuance “until lockdown is lifted” of the emergency proliferation that was brought in to help poorer families survive during the Covid-19 pandemic. NRG have been defined as the “biggest threat to Boris Johnson’s authority since he came to power”. 

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