Spell check

versal Credit, I wish I could claim credit for Amber Rudd’s latest U-turns on UC.

But the Work and Pensions Secretary was simply responding to a legal victory against her by four working mothers, including part-time dinner lady Danielle Johnson of Keighley.

The High Court ruled that the DWP got their monthly payment sums wrong, leaving out of pocket claimants who must now be compensated.

Ms Rudd also abolished the cruel two-child cap on families, and promised an end to George Osborne’s freeze on benefits in 2020 – without saying where the money would come from.

Not enough, but she might turn out to be a politician who gets it. SPELLING was important until educationalists decreed some time in the sixties it didn’t matter because it held back creativity.

The result is that more than half of all job-seekers’ CVs have at least one misspelt word.

Yorkshire work applicants were the third-worst spellers in the country.

Still, what do you expect in a county that spells Slawit the way it does? Not to mention Keighley and Knaresborough.

CHARITY Age UK says government plans to scrap free TV licences for the over 75s could push 50,000 old folk into poverty.

The patronising attitude of BBC bosses is insulting.

“We’re conscious that pensioner poverty is still an issue for some older people,” they bleat. Some? An issue?

If these fat-cat Corporation executives knew anything about real life outside Portland Place and their big houses, they wouldn’t have the nerve to talk like that.