Alexander Stewart said he had "real sympathy" with comments made last week by Ruth Davidson, who claimed the reduction in the benefit was the “wrong thing to do”.
The £20 uplift to the all-in-one benefit was a temporary measure to help poorer families during the pandemic and is due to come to an end from October 6 in a move that has sparked fury among anti-poverty campaigners.
Davidson, the former Scottish Conservatives leader, , told ITV’s Robert Peston that the cut was “bad politics” that would hit the Tories when the cut came in and, inevitably, when the funds were restored.
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