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Sir Keir Starmer has challenged Liz Truss to increase benefits in line with inflation next year as the political pressure on the Prime Minister continues to grow.
A row over uprating benefits dominated Conservative Party conference as the Government continues to refuse to guarantee that welfare payments will increase in line with surging prices.
Ministers have insisted no final decision has been made yet but they are understood to be considering increasing benefits in line with the lower metric of wage growth.
Tory MPs and some Cabinet ministers have argued that the normal link with inflation must be retained and Sir Keir today piled more pressure on Ms Truss as he also said inflation should be the measure used.
Asked if benefits should rise in line with inflation, the Labour leader told BBC Radio Manchester: "Yes. I think she is wrong about that and Boris Johnson actually made a promise, a commitment, that benefits would go up with inflation and it is wrong not to do that."
Increasing benefits in line with inflation would be expensive for the Government because inflation is currently approaching double digits. Any decision to ditch the link with inflation would spark a ferocious political backlash.
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