PM promises to examine raising universal credit in line with inflation

Boris Johnson said ‘we want to do is to look after people in the aftershocks of the pandemic’. Photograph: Tayfun Salcı/Zuma Press Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

Boris Johnson promised to examine a proposal to increase universal credit in line with inflation, as he was grilled by a high-powered committee of MPs over the cost of living crisis.

Questioning the prime minister as part of the liaison committee, Mel Stride MP highlighted the plight of those people dependent on universal credit, calling it a “hole”, in Rishi Sunak’s spring statement last week.