Residents of the UK’s benefits capitals might have been expected to welcome John Healey’s Budget this week, the first under Prime Minister Andy Burnham.
James Turner Street in Birmingham was made famous by the 2014 Channel 4 documentary Benefits Street.
Elsewhere, the Essex town of Jaywick is one of the country’s most deprived – with two-thirds of its working-age residents classed as ‘economically inactive’.
But the Daily Mail found locals in both were unimpressed by Mr Healey, who was also criticised after a U-turn over the Government’s welfare plans.
The Chancellor told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Thursday morning that there would be
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