Tory peer who helped set up Universal Credit calls for benefits boost

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A Conservative peer who helped set up universal credit has urged the government to increase benefits in a bid to ease the cost-of-living crisis for the hardest hit families.

Baroness Philippa Stroud has also called for the £20 uplift to be restored having previously warned that its removal would plunge thousands into poverty.