Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Cutting welfare goes against Labour’s core values – that’s the point

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Tim Bale, Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London

“It’s one thing to say the economy is not doing well and we’ve got a fiscal challenge … but cutting the benefits of the most vulnerable in our society who can’t work, to pay for that, is not going to work. And it’s not a Labour thing to do.”

So says former Labour big beast turned centrist-dad podcaster Ed Balls about the government’s welfare reform proposals. Cue furious nods from all those who were hoping and expecting…

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