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SCOTTISH Labour figures slammed both Tories and the SNP as they called out the British government’s disastrous universal credit policy and the Scottish government’s failure to mitigate its effects.
Opening a discussion about the policy at Labour’s Scottish conference in Dundee, Midlothian MP Danielle Rowley painted a bleak picture of its impacts.
She referenced the film I, Daniel Blake and described instances of constituents left relying on foodbanks following delays and administrative errors.
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
