Also: Welsh patients told to ‘gain weight’ to receive anti-obesity surgery; and NI deadlock on benefit reform.
The Work and Pensions Secretary is right to roll back Labour’s culture of welfare dependency.
One of the cruellest illusions of collectivism, T.E.Utley once pointed out, is that compassion can be delegated to the state.
Our series continues by looking at where the Labour leader stands on benefits – on a shifting pile of Milimud.
The former MP asks the question as she visits one in Cheadle Hulme.
Although this time it’s not his political career that’s at stake, but the future of welfare reform.
“At its very worst,” warns the Work and Pensions Secretary, “the present system makes criminals out of those trapped in its clutches.”
The Prime Minister “plans to strip welfare handouts from immigrants who cannot speak English”.
The founding tenets of the Welfare State have been overcome by change and cheap politics. It’s time for another Beveridge Report.
And that ain’t necessarily a good thing. The Tories’ moral mission could be forgotten amid all the talk of cuts.
The Chancellor thinks that leaving pensioner perks untouched is good politics, but it could backfire in numerous ways.
The Chancellor’s speech was all about summarising various political messages that he’s broadcast before. He now has more than one eye on the next election.
Immigration must be controlled in numbers but also in character, the Prime Minister told Andrew Marr.
A comprehensive speech on food banks, food, poverty, church work, demand, benefits & self and community help in full.
Why are we proposing to extend into the next Parliament the madness of slashing every budget except the budgets that in the 2000s rose the most?