TUC lambasts ‘Tale of Two Pandemics’ as pickpocket PM raids the low earners

Those earning less than £15,000 have had their resources stretched during the pandemic and now the PM is coming for them again with a national insurance hike, says James Moore

Food banks are busy in sign of return to a Dickensian world (Getty)

It has been “A Tale of Two Pandemics”, says the TUC, with the fortunate able to save a wall of money to stash away or pay off mortgages or just spend on treats, while the poor have been plunged into a Dickensian nightmare of poverty and debt.

Whatever next from Boris Johnson, the pickpocket PM? A return to the workhouse?

Snatching the pandemic’s £20-a-week universal credit uplift out of the hands of the poorest Britons, and leaving their children to go hungry in the process, does rather make you wonder how far away from that we actually are.