Truth’s out on robbery

THE Tories must scrap the roll-out of their cruel universal credit after Cabinet Minister Esther McVey was finally forced to admit it will short change families.

Making the just-about-managing no longer able to manage is a vindictive assault by a party adopting austerity as a poisonous political ideology rather than a necessity.

Theresa May has to take time out from Brexit concessions and order Chancellor Philip Hammond to use the Budget to scrap universal credit or replace it with a fair system which helps, not harms, working-class people.

Former Tory PM John Major was right to echo Gordon Brown’s warning that this attack risks repeating the bitter Poll Tax crisis.

It demonstrates growing opposition to the fiasco from both the Left to the Right.

Now the truth is in the open, the Tories will be seen as vindictive if they blindly press ahead with their great benefits robbery.