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Keir Starmer: universal credit cut is an attack on the poorest

Labour leader says Boris Johnson’s decision to remove £20 uplift comes at ‘worst possible time’

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Boris Johnson has been accused by Keir Starmer of “turning on the poorest” as Britain eases out of the Covid crisis by scrapping the £20 universal credit uplift, which the Labour leader committed to replacing.

Backing a call by the footballer Marcus Rashford for the government to abandon plans to cut the uplift, which was introduced during the pandemic, Starmer said the reduction came “at the worst possible time because prices are going up”.

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