Anneliese Dodds – 2021 Comments on Furloughed Workers and the Minimum Wage

The comments made by Anneliese Dodds, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, on 1 April 2021.

This is no April Fool – the Chancellor really has decided to hit the lowest paid furloughed workers with a pay freeze in the middle of a pandemic. That’s on top of his real-terms pay cuts for our NHS Covid heroes, his massive hike in council tax for families across the country and his plans to slash Universal Credit in just a few months.

Hitting Britain’s families in their pockets isn’t just wrong – it’s economically illiterate. If families have less money to spend, then businesses will suffer and the recovery will take longer. That’s the cost of the Conservatives.