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Labour continues the Tory war on the poor, sick and disabled
DR DYLAN MURPHY challenges the idea that social security places an economic burden on the public
DWP chief Liz Kendall

THE current Labour government of red Tories has doubled down recently on its propaganda against those people claiming benefits in the UK. 

These reactionary comments range from Starmer’s pledge in the Sun to be ruthless in his cuts to benefits, to Reeves making inflated claims in the same paper that spending on benefits has “spiralled out of control.” 

In the same interview with the Sun Reeves bragged that Labour is “introducing the biggest welfare fraud and error package in recent history.”

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