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The former Work and Pensions Secretary Stephen Crabb said the Chancellor should do something to “soften the impact” of planned cuts to Universal Credit, in his Autumn Statement next week. The Conservative MP told the Westminster Hour that the distributional impact for the changes from the Budget in March meant that people on the lowest incomes effectively lose money, whilst people on the highest incomes gain. "It offends everyone’s sense of social justice," he says, "But it doesn’t mean he needs to ‘reverse ferret’ on those proposed cuts. There are other things he can do to soften the impact of that.”