Blackford said: “The Prime Minister has the power to tackle child poverty right now by making the £20 uplift to Universal Credit permanent and by extending it to legacy benefits.
The Tory Government’s been stalling on this for months, will the Prime Minister finally act or will he leave millions of children out in the cold?”Johnson responded: “I think that the whole House and this country should be proud of the way we’ve tried to look after people, the poorest and neediest families, throughout the country, not just with Universal Credit which the party opposite would actually abolish but by helping vulnerable people with their food and their heating bills, the £170 million winter grant scheme, looking after people with the free school meal.
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