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Women in their 30s are £4,000 a year worse off since Tories took power
Prime Minister David Cameron (right) and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg hold their first joint press conference in the Downing Street garden in central London, May 12, 2010
LABOUR attacked the Tories today over their “13 years of failure” after new figures showed that women in their thirties are on average £4,159 a year worse off than when the Conservatives came to power.
In April 2010, the median full-time salary of women in that age range was the equivalent of £37,899 in current terms, but it is just £33,740 today.
The House of Commons Library analysis also lays bare the stark regional differences in how women’s living standards have fared since the Conservatives took office.
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