‘Outrageous’ that Johnson did not mention universal credit in speech says Sturgeon

Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon has said it was ‘outrageous’ that the Prime minister did not mention the cut to the universal credit uplift in his conference speech yesterday in Manchester.

At first minister’s questions today in Edinburgh, she responded to a question from the SNP MSP Jim Fairlie, who said Boris Johnson’s comments regarding the pig industry this week were “outrageous and condescending”.

Sturgeon agreed with him, and went on to say: “I do think it was deeply regrettable that the prime minister treated the very serious issues of animal welfare with such disdain on Sunday, just as I think it was outrageous that he made an entire speech to his party conference yesterday and did not mention the fact that on that very day his government had taken away £20 a week from the poorest families across the country.”