Working people £1,350 worse off – MP

WORKING people in Warrington are an average of £1,350 worse off under the coalition government – and MP Helen Jones puts the blame for that fairly and squarely on Prime Minister David Cameron.
The Warrington North MP (right) says an analysis of figures from the Office for National Statistics shows that David Cameron has been in Downing Street for 36 months of falling real wages – more than any other Prime Minister on record.
After inflation, wages are forecast to be £1,520 lower in 2015 than in 2010 – and that means working people will, on average, have lost a total of £6,660 in real terms while Mr Cameron has been Prime Minister.
Ms Jones said: “David Cameron will go down in history as a disastrous Prime Minister for people’s living standards.
“He’s totally out of touch with what is happening to people in Warrington. His economic policies have failed and the result is that families are massively out of pocket.”
The Warrington MP says that prices have risen faster than wages in 36 out of the 37 months that Mr Cameron has been in Downing
Street. This is the worst performance of any Prime Minister on record.
She said: “Labour would help families right now with a lower 10p starting rate of tax, tackling soaring energy bills, protecting tax credits for working families and by reversing David Cameron’s millionaire’s tax cut.”