Darren Jones ‘clumsy’ to compare benefits to pocket money, says Chancellor - Rachel Reeves’s deputy sparked outrage on ...

A cabinet minister compared Labour’s disability cuts to cutting his own children’s pocket money – and was met with a swift ...

Treasury minister Darren Jones faced backlash when he made the comparison in the wake of the Chancellor’s spring statement.

Oh dear. It seems that some Labour ministers are in desperate need of some media training. First, there was Seema Malhotra ...

Rachel Reeves has rebuked her deputy Darren Jones after he compared cutting disability benefits to children’s pocket money.

Treasury minister Darren Jones has apologised after he used the example of pocket money when talking about benefits cuts for disabled people. Jones, who is deputy to Rachel Reeves, was defending ...

Rachel Reeves has disowned her deputy’s “clumsy” comments comparing benefits to children’s pocket money – just hours after ...

Responding to Darren Jones’s comments on comparing cuts to disability benefits to cutting his children’s pocket money, Liberal Democrat Work and Pensions spokesperson Steve Darling MP, who is himself ...