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What do Jeremy Hunt’s welfare reforms add up to?

16 March 2023

3:40 AM

16 March 2023

3:40 AM

In his Budget speech, Jeremy Hunt made a great play on how Conservatives value work. Tories love talking about this but in fact they have just presided over a catastrophic increase in benefits. Before the pandemic there were 4.2 million on benefits: at the last count, 5.2 million. Given the mass worker shortage, this is quite a scandal.

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