Six million UK households face poverty as Tories end furlough and benefit increases – socialist revolution is the only answer

Workers Revolutionary Party
WHEN the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK in March, and the Tory government was forced to order the first national lockdown, Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak made a temporary £20 a week increase in Universal Credit for the thousands of new claimants thrown out of work.
This increase is due to end in April.
Even this temporary increase was completely inadequate to protect the unemployed and low paid workers forced onto Universal Credit.
Unemployment benefits for workers before the crisis struck were around 34% of average income – less than at any time since the creation of the Welfare State in 1948, according to figures produced by the New Economics Foundation.

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