A long way to go on welfare
From our UK edition
Yesterday's welfare speech from the Prime Minister confirmed that there is still a long way to go in reforming the benefits system. Universal Credit and the Work programme will start the process, but will not be enough to tackle the extent of worklessness and benefit dependency that we have seen develop in the UK over the last 50 years. It was encouraging, though, to hear the Prime Minister acknowledge the need to modernise the welfare system further. In part, this is a numbers game. As the Chancellor and Steve Hilton have both recently made clear, future Spending Reviews are going to have to take more money out of welfare.
