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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson Hon FRIBA (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer, and former journalist serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since 2019. He was Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson was Member of Parliament for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and has been MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Ideologically, Johnson identifies as a one-nation conservative.
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Half a million DWP Universal Credit claimants denied £326 cost of living payment

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dailyrecord.co.uk

More than half a million struggling Brits were denied a £326 summer cost-of-living payment to help with rocketing bills. Boris Johnson offered the fund - the first half of a total £650 - to more than 8 million people on benefits in July to show them “we are on their side”.

But ministers now admit 551,000 Universal Credit claimants missed out because they earned too much from work, according to The Mirror.

Labour believe some of them had two paydays fall in the same 30-day qualifying period because their wages come every four weeks.

This “staggering” technicality meant their income was temporarily too high to get a cost-of-living payment - even though usually it is much lower.

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