UK Must ‘Get Really Serious’ About Cutting Welfare, Burnham Says
UK welfare cuts
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- NYT Business·2h agoPublic Control or ‘20th-Century Socialism’? U.K. Debates a Different Way.
The new prime minister, Andy Burnham, faulted Margaret Thatcher’s privatization in the 1980s. He wants an alternative economic model, especially to run utilities.
Read at NYT Business → - The Independent UK·21h agoVoices: ‘Where are the jobs?’ Readers clash over Andy Burnham’s welfare crackdown
Our community is divided after Andy Burnham vowed to make benefits – including mental health support – conditional on work, with some cheering the crackdown and others accusing the new PM of copying his predecessors’ mistakes
Read at The Independent UK → - HuffPost UK Politics·1d agoAndy Burnham Hints He Will Make It Harder To Claim Benefits To Bring Down Welfare Bill
Andy Burnham holds a National Economic Council meeting at No 10 North last Friday. Andy Burnham has suggested he wants to make it harder for people to claim benefits in a bid to bring down the welfare bill. The prime minister said “we’ve got to get really serious as a country”…
Read at HuffPost UK Politics → - Bloomberg Politics·1d agoUK Must ‘Get Really Serious’ About Cutting Welfare, Burnham Says
Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the UK should make it harder for Britons to claim benefits as the government seeks to tackle a soaring welfare bill.
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