Benefit cuts vote a sad indictment of UK policy, says New Economics Foundation
NEF says botched cuts a cynical way to achieve government savings
01 July 2025
Max Mosley, senior researcher at the New Economics Foundation, said:
“Today is a sad indictment of how we make policy in this country. This government is claiming that this botched set of cuts were prompted by a need to improve our social security system. But the real motivation is a scramble to find government savings after GDP growth was lower than expected following the autumn budget. Something has gone seriously wrong here. How have we ended up in a world where 1 percentage point error in our GDP forecasts cascades down into pushing a quarter of a million people into poverty?”
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Topics Social security
