Chancellor Phillip Hammond says he rejects the idea millions live in dire poverty in the UK.

Are millions of people in dire poverty or just "struggling with the cost of living"? A recent UN report claimed 14 million people in the UK live in poverty and one and half million are destitute. It criticised the government's "punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous" austerity policies. But the chancellor Philip Hammond rejected this claim. Stephen got the views of the commentator and Conservative party member Irwin Armstrong and the People Before Profit Cllr Fiona Ferguson.