Response to comments made by former Tory Chancellor Ken Clarke and Tory Minister Tracey Crouch regarding tax credits
Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Labour’s Shadow Treasury Minister, responding to comments made by former Tory Chancellor Ken Clarke and Tory Minister Tracey Crouch regarding tax credits said:
“Another day and yet more evidence of out of touch Tory MPs insulting working people in low pay in what has been a further torturous week for George Osborne on tax credits.
“It is just offensive to describe the money millions of hard working people rely on just to get to the end of each month in the same language used to describe corruption in football.
“And it’s outrageous for a serving minister to claim that working families simply need to ‘go without’ in order to make ends meet. Losing £1,300 a year isn’t about cutting back on luxuries, it’s about families being able to pay the bills.
“What a bung really looks like is a Tory party funded by rich bankers and hedge funds giving tax breaks to a few millionaires while cutting tax credits to over three million working families by £1,300 a year.“
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