The right’s scrounger rhetoric dominates the benefits debate. Labour must fight back – and win | Frances Ryan
Now, nearly two decades later, Duncan Smith and his thinktank, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), has published State of Dependency: a landmark report…
The Guardian reports: Now, nearly two decades later, Duncan Smith and his thinktank, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), has published State of Dependency: a landmark report promising to expose “the full scale of Britain’s worklessness crisis”.
The prime minister has a once-in-a-generation chance to reintroduce compassion to welfare.
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