Red Wall Tories Prepare to Oppose Universal Credit Cut In Mondays Crucial Commons Vote

Saturday 16 January, 2021 Written by Simon Collyer

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Red Wall Tories have urged the Chancellor to keep the temporary uplift until lockdown ends.

On Monday Labour plans to force a Commons vote to make the boost permanent.

39% of the 5.7million Universal Credit recipients are in work.

50 Conservative MPs from Red Wall seats signed a letter to the Chancellor demanding the temporary uplift to the lifeline benefit stays in place until lockdown ends. Labour wants the uplift to be permanent.

The Tories froze benefits for four years but cynically ended the freeze just before the General Election. The extra £20 was not a gift, it just restored what had been taken away.

When banks are allowed to create a nation's money supply, we all end up paying higher taxes. This is because the proceeds from creating new money go to the banks rather than the taxpayer and because taxpayers end up paying the cost of financial crises caused by the banks. Ordinary workers in the UK pay about 73% of all the taxes.

This table shows how much employers deduct from employees’ pay.

	2020 to 2021
Between Primary Threshold and Upper Earnings Limit	12%
Above Upper Earnings Limit	2%
Rebate for employees in contracted-out workplace pension schemes	N/A
Married women’s reduced rate between primary threshold and upper earnings limit	5.85%
Rate for employees deferring National Insurance	2%