“Your reforms will push an extra 250,000 people, including 50,000 children, into relative poverty… wow..” Victoria Derbyshire challenges Darren Jones MP on the welfare reform impact assessment which he says doesn’t account for “the positive benefit of moving into work” #Newsnight

@vicderbyshire Car crash interview - Darren Jones squirming all over the place. What an utter disgrace for a Labour government. You could understand it if they were Tories - but Labour? If this is the best from Labour god help us!

@vicderbyshire Voted Labour all my life paid union money into Labour Party they have stabbed us in the back.Done back breaking work.Nobody believes you the pain you are in.

@vicderbyshire Can Labour guarantee they will all get jobs, let alone decent well paid ones?

Low-income Americans who voted for Trump say they are counting on him to keep their benefits intact even while his Cabinet picks and Republican lawmakers call on him to reduce federal spending.

@vicderbyshire For god's sake. The question is: And what about those who won't be able to work?? What happens to them?? Why is no one asking this question?????

@vicderbyshire Maybe he'd like to explain how my daughter, who is mainly wheelchair-bound, and needs 2 to 4 days to recover from a couple of hours work, is going to benefit from his policies. Meanwhile, the majority of billionaires' wealth comes from unearned income.

@vicderbyshire Victoria - why did you NOT pull Jones up on the fact that PIP is NOT an " out of work " benefit and that it is perfectly possible that many of the people he wants to starve into work ARE ALREADY WORKING ???

@vicderbyshire Another fecking imbecile.

@vicderbyshire Smirking, dismissive Labour ministers actually outdoing the Tories for entitled arrogance and casual cruelty. Who'd a thought it?

@vicderbyshire As always, the same assumption that ‘moving into work’ is as easy as going down the supermarket for a loaf of bread. In many cases, there is no supermarket & there are no loaves.

@vicderbyshire Gosh they are just evil aren’t they ? Even the “bad Tories” wouldn’t dare do what this iteration of Labour have done trying to defend the indefensible?