Debbie Abrahams MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, responding to the news that the Tories’ former Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan-Smith has called on the government to reverse cuts to Universal Credit, said:

“Even the man who introduced the Tories’ cruel and ineffective social security reforms is backing Labour’s call for the government to reverse these nasty cuts to work incentives in the social security system.

“The Tories claimed they wanted to make work pay, but then slashed the budget of Universal Credit, leaving 2.5 million working families on average £2,100 worse off. Labour is calling for the full reversal of these damaging cuts, to restore the principle that work always pays.”