Darren Jones has apologised for comparing the government’s welfare cuts to cutting his children’s pocket money.

Treasury minister Darren Jones has apologised after he used the example of pocket money when talking about benefits cuts for ...

Rachel Reeves has revealed how much pocket money she pays her children a week and urged 16-year-olds to get a job. The Chancellor described her domestic arrangement to LBC presenter Iain Dale ...

Ms Reeves, however, rejected this claim, comparing it to her child losing some pocket money but then getting a part-time job instead ... The Chancellor also revealed she pays her kids between five and ...

A cabinet minister compared Labour’s disability cuts to cutting his own children’s pocket money – and was met with a swift backlash. The government has decided to cut down on the number of ...

Rachel Reeves has rebuked her deputy Darren Jones after he compared cutting disability benefits to children’s pocket money. The chancellor announced two controversial rounds of welfare cuts – both ...

Despite understanding that getting more money from ... money we give to our children is that pocket money politics is a transfer of wealth from the kids rather than to them, as we mortgage their ...

Rachel Reeves’s deputy sparked outrage on Wednesday for making the comparison as he defended the Government’s cuts to welfare. Treasury minister Darren Jones was “clumsy” when he compared ...