Labour leader says PM is ‘making a bad situation worse’ by ending universal credit uplift and raising national insurance

Boris Johnson has been accused of “hammering” workers with a “broken tax system” as the end of the universal credit uplift and the hike to national insurance loom.

The Labour leader, Keir Starmer, accused the prime minister of “making a bad situation worse” by in effect cutting the pay of those including supermarket workers and teaching assistants by more than £1,000 a year.

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