4th October, 2021.
Yep: I need a haircut.
I’m starting to get just a little bit shaggy.
Quite how I’m going to afford a haircut, I don’t know!
Which sort of raises the issue, doesn’t it … ?
The uplift to Universal Credit — introduced last year — is due to end on Wednesday.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is going to be making a speech at the Tory party conference today: where he’s expected to announce more help for job support schemes.
I suspect the schemes the Chancellor is going to be announcing are much like the ones I’ve already been on.
Useless.
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The Chancellor’s also just confirmed the end of the Uplift: just now, on the Today Programme.
This is despite leaders of the devolved parliaments calling for it to stay: in a letter to the Prime Minister.
And despite former PM — and former Chancellor — Gordon Brown also calling for it to be retained.
Frankly?
The Tories are going to lose a lot of votes.
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