It was the news that thousands of people across Scotland had been dreading.
The UK Government has confirmed it will end the £20 uplift in Universal Credit payments - despite repeated warnings from charities, opposition parties, and even several Tory MPs that it will plunge more people into poverty.
Boris Johnson breezily told a Westminster committee yesterday that the answer “is to get people into work”, conveniently forgetting the fact that 37% of UC claimants already have jobs.
That’s before we even consider the employment market is the worst it’s been since 2008 and many companies could go to the wall when furlough ends in September.
On the same day a Tory government was taking money from the poor, we learn the wife of shamed tycoon Sir Philip Green has recouped £50million from the collapse of Topshop.
Documents show a firm controlled by Lady Green received the money from administrators in May.
It relates to a loan dating back to a restructuring of parent company Arcadia in 2019.
But it comes as the firm’s pensioners and smaller suppliers face a further wait to recover what they are owed.
If ever there was a grim example of how the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, this is it.
Green’s empire has turned to dust and yet his family still coins it in while millions of people across the UK struggle to make ends meet.
With news like this, it’s little wonder that so many people have lost faith in politicians and big business.
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