Rishi Sunak has been accused of playing politics with people's lives following his Spring Statement yesterday.
The Tory Chancellor attempted to ease the current cost of living crisis across the country with a number of measures, but has been accused of not going far enough.
In his Commons statement, Sunak announced a 5p cut in fuel duty and an increase in the threshold at which people pay national insurance contributions, benefiting around 30 million workers with a tax cut worth more than £330.
During a heated interview on Good Morning Britain host Ranvir Singh took aim at Sunak over his lack of action to help the poorest in society who will be hit hardest.
She said: "Well, you did have other options which you didn't use. You talk about the squeeze on everybody but the government will receive a big windfall because of inflation.
"You're tax revenue goes up, the Office for Budget Responsibility says that will provide roughly a windfall of £35bn a year to you to play around with.
"But you seem to have just banked that. That £20 uplift on Universal Credit would have given families just over £1000. Something like that certainly would have helped.
"People feel you have completely dropped the ball on this. You were this empathetic Chancellor who brought out the furlough scheme, yet before us this morning we feel like we've got a Chancellor who is playing politics with their lives."
Sunak responded: "It's right that we did some things during an extraordinary period of time in our country's history where we were literally shutting down the economy for the best part of two years on and off."
Singh said: "But we're in an extraordinary situation now."
Sunak replied: "This is not the same situation of shutting down an entire economy. It clearly isn't.
"I want to make sure that we are helping those on low incomes which is why we started doing that.
"We started in the autumn and that was my priority with the first set of tax cuts."
Earlier today, new research from the Resolution Foundation revealed that 1.3 million Brits are on the verge of absolute poverty.
With Brits facing the biggest drop in income since the 1950s the millionaire Chancellor remarked "we all have different breads in my house".
During another frosty interview on BBC Breakfast Sunak was asked about rising food prices and which items he noticed had increased.
The presenter said it was crisps for her, however Sunak replied: "It’s probably, I think bread, probably is the thing.
"The one we buy I’m sure is now about £1.20 and it was about £1, from memory."
He was then probed further about what brand he buys, he replied: "It’s a Hovis kind of seeded thing.
"We have a whole range of different - we all have different breads in my house, a degree of healthiness between my wife, myself and my kids."
Sunak's comments come a day after Iceland’s boss said food bank users are "declining potatoes and root veg because they can't afford the energy to boil them".
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