Treasury minister James Murray tells Sophy Ridge that figures suggesting today’s spring statement will push more people into poverty are "one side of the story".
A damning line in the government’s own impact assessment of its multibillion pound benefit cuts says 250,000 more people – including 50,000 children – will be pushed into poverty as a result by 2030.
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