Minister apologises for comparing disability benefit cuts to children’s pocket money
www.independent.co.uk
A Labour minister has apologised for comparing disability benefit cuts to children’s pocket money. Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Treasury, attempted to defend Labour’s welfare cuts, announced by chancellor Rachel Reeves in the spring statement on Wednesday (26 March). He told BBC Politics Live: “My understanding is what the impact assessment doesn't account for is the benefit that you get from our additional money into support for training, skills or work. “Take, for example, if I said to my kids, 'I'm going to cut your pocket money by £10 per week, but you have to go and get a Saturday job'. “The impact assessment on that basis would say that my kids were down £10, irrespective of how much money they get from their Saturday job.' Appearing on ITV’s Peston show on Wednesday evening, Mr Jones admitted his earlier comment was “tactless”.
  • SlayGuevaraA
    32·
    9 months ago

    Stop sending billions in tax cuts and subsidies to companies. Tell them to just pull themselves up from the bootstraps. Spend the money on disability care.

  • ghost_of_faso3English
    27·
    9 months ago

    ‘Sorry I should have used a different analogy to explain why im committing social murder’

      • ghost_of_faso3English
        9·
        9 months ago

        Nope, its what he said and hes backtracking on it.

        The backtracking not being ‘sorry for saying that, we will not do this anymore’

        just ‘sorry I said that, I should have said it in a nicer way but we’re still going to cut disabled peoples benefits’

  • slakemothEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    There are some MPs who wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire