Terrible Tories: A Recent Timeline

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Terrible Tories: A Recent Timeline

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Taken from The Morning Star, April 19th 2017

May 2015 - Win general election with a tiny majority, A further £12 billion a year welfare cuts announced
July 2015 - Cap on social care costs in England will be £72,000 by 2020
March 2016 - State pension age for both men and women raised to 66 by 2020
April 2016 - Wage limit earned in a job while claiming universal credit reduced, Food-bank use rises to more than a million
June 2016 - Britain votes to leave the EU, prompting David Cameron to resign
July 2016 - Theresa May becomes prime minister
October 2016 - Home Secretary Amber Rudd reveals plans to force firms to compile lists of foreign workers
November 2016 - Plans for all NHS patients to show their passport before they receive healthcare, Corporation tax to be reduced from 20 per cent to 17 per cent by 2020
December 2016 - Government statistics showed that 4,134 people slept rough on any one night across England, over double the number in 2010
January 2017 - May holds hands with US President Donald Trump following his offensive remarks about women
March 2017 - Cut housing benefit for jobless 18 to 21-year-olds, Vote down plan to rescue more child refugees after axing of Dubs amendment
April 2017 - New claimants of ESA who have disabilities or long-term illnesses get £30-a-week cut, Families with more than two children will not be eligible for further tax credits for subsequent children born after April; rape victims have to prove they were raped, King of Saudi Arabia awards Ms May the Order of King Abdulaziz, an honour which recognises those who have given meritorious service to the kingdom
May 2017 - Britain enters its 10th year without a pay rise
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