There could not be a worse time to withdraw £20 a week of Universal Credit.
With gas prices soaring and incomes deliberately slashed, this would be a callous policy even by this Tory Government’s standards.
Boris Johnson will never be forgiven if he cruelly imposes the planned cut. Combined with a £153-a-year increase in energy bills, it would impoverish millions.
This assault is a political choice. The Prime Minister, unusually for him, is unable to dodge responsibility this time.
The extra £20 of Universal Credit must be maintained because families with children depend on the money to make ends meet.
It may not be much to Johnson. He seems.not to understand that for those less fortunate, it keeps them above the breadline.
The U.S of yay
EASING its coronavirus restrictions, the United States is once again within reach of travellers from the UK.
President Joe Biden finally reviewing controls imposed by his predecessor Donald Trump will reunite separated families as well as fuel business trips and tourism.
The fact that teenagers are starting to be vaccinated is welcome evidence that young people and their parents recognise that jabs protect us – individually and collectively –from a deadly disease we have yet to beat.
And as the US will require travellers to have had two doses of a Covid vaccine, those refusing to be immunised will effectively be putting themselves on a no-fly list.Get jabbed to be safe and free.
It’s flan-tastic
That tastiest of national institutions, Bake Off, returns to Channel 4 tonight. It is a moment to savour as autumn draws in.
We look forward to being inspired by the talented amateur chefs’ creations and we will enjoy their sweet moments of triumph.
But the chefs should remember that, however wrong their mix goes, it can’t be any less oven-ready than the PM’s Brexit deal.
