Conservative MPs seem to be spoiling us at the moment. Every other day another one comes out with a new tip for surviving the highest rate of inflation on record. The latest gem is from the Home Office minister Rachel Maclean who, instead of providing solutions for the “short-term” pressures on people’s budgets, said that to “protect themselves better” in the long term people should be “taking on more hours or moving to a better-paid job”.
When pressed by Sky News’s Kay Burley on the examples of people working three jobs yet still having to visit food banks, Maclean doubled down. “Of course it’s not [straightforward],” she conceded. “We have often heard in the past when people are facing problems with their budgets that one of the obstacles — and it may not be for everybody — is about being able to take on more hours, or even move to a better-paid job.”
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