Government has devastated the least wealthy

THE Prime Minister keeps claiming that poverty is decreasing in Britain. However, absolute poverty as he’s quoted shows a shocking rise with 12 million people affected.

Every official measure shows child poverty is rising, affecting one in six children. Child poverty has risen fastest in Britain among all OECD countries.

Seventy-one per cent of people hit by poverty live in a household where at least one person works.

The Government’s austerity, wage stagnation and extreme housing costs have been devastating.

Their decisions to slash benefits have hugely impacted the least wealthy in our communities, among which are families with children, who have lost about £4,000 a year in real terms.

The super-rich have seen massive financial growth due to rising property prices and a tax system much more lenient on existing wealth than earned income.

Last year alone as few as seven individuals donated an astounding £31.7million to the Conservative Party, while Rishi Sunak, earning £2m, paid effectively the same rate of tax as a schoolteacher earning a fiftieth of that.

Through the pandemic key workers kept us going, but in their households the TUC found that a million children lived in poverty.

“Levelling up” was the crowning Conservative promise of the last General Election.

What has that promise come to? Sunak himself said that he’s diverted money away from deprived areas.

Even Tory sources admit this Government is out of touch. The Conservatives are trying to distract from the facts, the statistics, the damage 14 years of their rule has done to our country.

When the elections come the voters will decide who rules and we have the chance to change the statistics for the better.