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FOOTBALL pundit Gary Neville tore into Tory ideology today during a televised debate ahead of the government’s “brutal” £20 cut to universal credit payments.
The former England and Manchester United defender appeared on ITV’s breakfast show Good Morning Britain alongside former Thatcherite MP Edwina Currie in the morning.
Currie told hosts Susanna Reid and Tony Blair’s former spindoctor Alastair Campbell that there were “record numbers of job vacancies” in the country and that employers “from catering to the care industry, food processing” were in need of workers.
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
The government’s retreat on PIP still leaves 150,000 new universal credit claimants facing halved benefits from April 2026, creating a discriminatory two-tier welfare system that campaigners must continue fighting, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY
