Discredited

UNIVERSAL credit is universally loathed except by the Tory austerity imposers who know very little, and care even less, about the lives of the people they are cheating.

Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has joined a lengthening list of prominent figures demanding the benefit be reformed or axed.

This is fresh evidence of the widening support for the Daily Mirror’s campaign to protect family incomes from savage cuts.

Jobs paying decent wages and a welfare state keeping everybody above the breadline are hallmarks of a civilised society.

The Tory impoverishment of grafters is a crime against dignity.