Chancellor Rishi Sunak was criticised last week for signalling a possible end to the triple lock on state pensions and for defending the ending of the £20 uplift to Universal Credit which was introduced during the pandemic I WOULD like to support and add to L McGregor’s letter on poverty (July 9) with a personal story. My dad was born in a tenement in the Gorbals in 1922 and my mum in one in Partick a few years later. I suppose you could describe them as “poor but smart” but by dint of personal effort after serving in the Royal Engineers during the Second World War, Dad became a qualified mechanical engineer. Together they raised a family of six kids, Dad was always employed and during our formative years Mum was a full-time housewife and mother. Money was always tight; I vividly remember collecting scrap lead pipes from the house we were renovating ourselves to trade for cash to feed us one weekend as we were skint. We all worked; I had a paper round while still at prim
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