Chris Leslie MP, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, responding to David Cameron’s comments at Prime Minister’s Questions that people are better off under the Tories, said:

“The Tories are completely out of touch to claim that people are better off under them. 

“The truth is that under David Cameron real wages have fallen by over £1,600 and families are on average £891 worse off as a result of tax and benefit changes since 2010.  At the same time he’s given a huge tax cut to people earning over £150,000.

“David Cameron should come clean about the scale of the cost-of-living crisis under him.  But the reality is that he can’t be the solution to the cost-of-living crisis because he just doesn’t understand the problem.”