Moving on to the very nasty party

Sir, – A few years ago Theresa May famously said the Tories were in danger of being seen as the “nasty party”.

It is obvious that on their record in government they have now moved on and exceeded her prediction.

From the Government’s own figures it is estimated there are now four million children in poverty in Britain.

According to the Rowntree Foundation 67% of these children are from families where one adult is working.

There has been a huge increase in inequality. The Social Mobility Commission resigned in despair at the lack of Government action. It is stated that wages are lower than they were 20 years ago, and they are projected not to rise for the foreseeable future. This against a background of a crisis in social care ( e.g. home care company Four Seasons going into liquidation and owned by a US equity company), train fares rising above inflation to feed largely foreign-owned company profits, domestic fuel prices continuing to rise (again to feed private profits) and a crisis in NHS funding.

This Government is presiding over an increasingly unequal society, caused by an actual reduction in living standards for wage earners and the erosion, by financial cuts, of our public services.

At the same time they have done nothing about the abuse of off-shore funds used by the rich to avoid tax, whilst simultaneously giving tax reductions for the big companies.

Indeed the Tory Party has moved on. It is now the very nasty party. Brian Batson.

7 Lour Road, Forfar.