Scrap benefits cut to stop millions falling into poverty, Boris Johnson told

Thinktank adds to pressure on PM from opposition to extend £20-a-week universal credit upliftBoris Johnson cannot claim to be “levelling up” the UK if he persists with a planned cut in universal credit for 6 million families, an influential thinktank has said, as pressure mounts on the prime minister over the issue from within his own party.The Resolution Foundation joined opposition parties, anti-poverty campaigners and many Conservative MPs in urging the government to extend the £20-a-week uplift introduced during the first wave of the pandemic. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/18/boris-johnson-cannot-level-up-if-he-cuts-universal-credit-top-up-says-thinktank #universal_credit #poverty #coronavirus #uk_news #social_exclusion #society #boris_johnson #politics