Armando Iannucci says Government policies ‘are putting more people into poverty’
The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci has said that listening to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt speaking about welfare is difficult as the Government has policies that are “putting more people into poverty”.
The Scottish director and satirist, a patron of the Child Poverty Action Group, was asked for his reaction to Mr Hunt speaking about the squeeze on households on the BBC’s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme.
The 60-year-old, whose films include The Personal History Of David Copperfield, based on the book of a similar name by Charles Dickens,
