The number of people on Universal Credit has hit 8.4 million, up 63,000 in a single month according to DWP data published today. This is also made up of off-flow from people on other benefits as well. That’s one in eight of the entire population…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”