Does Labour think benefit claimants are ‘taking the mickey’?
- Posted on February 7, 2025
- By The Independent
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Does Labour think benefit claimants are ‘taking the mickey’?
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An offhand remark by the minister in charge of welfare reform illustrates the scale of the problem facing this government, and of the likely backlash it will receive, as Sean O’Grady explains