Reader letter
From: Tom Franks, Ilkley
THE increase in energy prices will hit all of us, but arguably the poor will be hit proportionately worse by this increase. The increase in NICs (for a worthy cause) will hit the employed. The removal of the £20 uplift on universal credit will hit the very poor. Those who will avoid most of the pain appear to be relatively affluent pensioners. In the week of the Conservative conference, it is worth asking what sort of levelling-up agenda we are following.
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