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THE Tories have broken 21 promises in the 21 weeks since they won the general election, Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth revealed yesterday.
Mr Ashworth said that the pain felt in the Labour Party after May’s election defeat had been eclipsed by the suffering of people at the sharp end of Tory cuts.
He recalled how a pensioner came into his surgery “in tears with no money to buy food” and forced to turn to the foodbank.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE