Minister who made poor children colder, hungrier

IT is hard to think of a worse appointment than Esther McVey as Work and Pensions Secretary.

Toby Young would make a better Minister for Women and Equalities.

Reforms she helped bring into being have led to destitution, suicides and deaths, as well as making the lives of poor children colder and hungrier. The rise of homeless people on our streets and the tidal flow of people into foodbanks stems from those years she spent as a Work and Pensions Minister.

How should anyone who needs the welfare state at this moment not feel both terrified and betrayed?