BACK in the halcyon days of the summer of this year, Tory MPs elected a new Prime Minister, Theresa May.

Her acceptance speech, on the steps of 10 Downing Street, stated that she was going to “fight burning injustice in British society and to speak for the ordinary working class family struggling to make ends meet”, otherwise known as the jams (just about managing).

After the report on the Autumn Statement (The Press, November 24) it seems that she has forgotten those altruistic words had little meaning coming from a Tory.

The increase in the national living wage from £7.20 to £7.50 an hour in April will benefit only a very few people as the vast majority of people that will receive the increase will then have their state benefits readjusted downwards so as to remove any benefit in an individual’s standard of living.

Towards the jams, the Chancellor gave very little.

Rachael Maskell, the Labour MP for York Central, appears to hit the nail on the head when she states in the same article that: “It is official that the long-term economic plan (of the Tories) has failed. Debt was spiralling out of control, as the national debt had reached £1.7 trillion.”

At least my conscience is clear as a Remain voter in the EU referendum, when I read in the national media that the Tory Chancellor said that “the decision to leave the EU would blow a £59 billion hole in the public finances over the next five years”.

Howard Perry, St James Place, Dringhouses, York