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PRIME MINISTER David Cameron launched a breathtaking exercise in PR spin yesterday with “fictitious” claims that his cuts-obsessed government would now put families first.
The Tory leader vowed that from this autumn every piece of new legislation would face a formal “family test” to check its impact.
And he restated his party’s intention to roll out its part-funded “intervention” strategy to target another 380,000 “troubled families.”
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE
