Jonathan Reynolds challenged Helen Whately on Question Time.A senior Tory was told “you don’t like poor people” as she was monstered over her party’s plans to slash welfare.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the long-term unemployed who haven’t contributed enough tax into the system will see their Universal Credit payments cut by nearly a third if she becomes prime minister.
The new “subsistence level” benefit they do receive would be loaded onto a pre-payment card, which would ban spending on cigarettes, alcohol and betting.
Shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately defended the policy on BBC Question Tim...
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