voted in favour to press the Government and urge them not to cut the £20-a-week uplift in Universal Credit. A motion brought forward by the deputy leader of the council, councillor Sabia Akram (Labour: Elliman), was passed to write to Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak demanding the £20 increase to Universal Credit is permanent. Cllr Akram said: “We often hear the Prime Minister saying he wants to ‘level up’ the UK – but when we judge the Government by its actions and not by its sound-bites, it’s hard to see with this regressive cut of £1,000 of welfare support to 8,125 Slough residents that he serious about it?”