Member

The direction is clear, and it is backwards. Ministers claim that by 2030 the Bill could lift 50,000 people out of poverty, but respected economists and think-tanks have called that projection misleading. It is based not on current law but on hypothetical Tory policies that never materialised. How on earth can we claim credit for something that the Conservative party did not implement? It does not stand up. Spin will not shield the Government from the consequences because, as we know, perhaps half a million future claimants living in material deprivation must be prepared to live on less, depending on how we vote today.