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Government glee as Labour front bench declares it would not reverse the £26,000 a year benefit cap
A Labour government would not reverse the Tory led-coalition’s planned £26,000-a-year benefits cap – which the Opposition supports “in principle” –despite the party voting with Liberal Democrat peers and Church of England bishops to reject it in the House of Lords, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Liam Byrne said this week. He said the proposed [...]
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As unemployment hits the highest level since 1996, extraordinary benefit claimant figures reveal that the recession has divided the United Kingdom more than ever – with the jobless actually falling in some coalition constituencies while rising rapidly in Labour-held seats. In a damning indictment of David Cameron’s claim that “we are all in it together”, [...]
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