Shropshire Star

Letter: Where will Cameron make his next cuts?

David Cameron struggled with questions on food banks when asked. So let me remind him.

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Since 2010, on his watch, food banks have risen from 66 to 420. Four million people a year experience food poverty in the UK.

He also seems to be clueless as to where the axe would fall (if elected) to achieve their planned £12 billion cuts to welfare. So let me guess.

Carers' allowance restricted to those eligible for universal credit, child benefit would be limited, disability living allowance, personal independence payments and attendance allowance (for over 65s who have care needs) would no longer be paid tax-free.

A Tory for work and pensions department would have many plans to cut.

Mr Cameron pledges the Tories would not put VAT up, but remember Conservatives had no plans to increase VAT before the 2010 election (watch this space). But he might expand VAT in other areas.

Mr Osborne said: "We were all in this together" yet the IFS, an economic think-tank, said wages had seen their slowest recovery in modern history.

It said that since 2010 tax and benefit changes cost the poor 10 per cent of households £2,000 on average, while the rich lost around £1,250 and the very rich had seen barely any change.

Ron Jowett, Shifnal

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