The urgent case for massive welfare reform is now impossible to ignore Politics By accident or design, Britain is facing a moment of reckoning when it comes to welfare spending. The issue serves as a major fault line in Westminster, with the Tories pledging to slash the benefits bill while Andy Burnham vows there will be “no crude cuts” to the hundreds of billions of pounds spent across [...]
MPs are caught in a welfare catch-22 Opinion The more a constituency depends on welfare, the stronger the incentive for its MP to leave it alone, whichever party they sit for.