THE government’s renewed assault on Britain’s poor and disabled is shameful — but it is entirely in line with the behaviour of a party whose disregard for the wellbeing of ordinary people and contempt for human rights, the law and our legal system have been growing, year on year, for more than a decade now.

Tony Benn once said that we should watch how governments treat refugees because it shows how they will treat us if they can get away with it. He was right — and the homogenisation of the political landscape, with the Tories and the “opposition” marching almost in lockstep on spending and human rights, has clearly convinced this government that it can get away with a lot.

Rishi Sunak’s determination to bypass the Supreme Court’s decision against his government’s deportation of refugees to Rwanda rightly made headlines last week, but Sunak and his Chancellor Jeremy Hunt also turned their fire again on the sick and disabled.