While there was no clear winner, the exchanges on benefits did credit to both Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May
Today’s exchange was almost wholly around benefits. Jeremy Corbyn recommended that the prime minister should “support British cinema” by going to see Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake during a series of questions about benefit sanctions, universal credit cuts and cuts to the employment support allowance for disabled people. He accused Theresa May of “imposing poverty on people” under the guise of helping them find work. In response, May said Labour was in favour of no sanctions and no obligation on claimants to prove they were unfit for work, and that the benefits system needed to also be fair to the people who pay for it. She said Labour had lost touch with its working-class support and the Tories were now the true party of the working classes.
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It’s time we ended this institutional barbarity against the most vulnerable people in the system.
The Labour party is drifting away from the views of working-class people. It is this party that knows how to support them.
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