Welfare reform is crucial
IT IS good to see the Prime Minister backing his Chancellor over the case for welfare reform and ignoring the shrill objections of the Left.
The vast majority of the public knows that it is time the benefits system went back to functioning as a safety net and not a feather bed
Cheats and lay-a-bouts not only sap public confidence in the benefits system but also deprive genuine claimants of funds.
New measures to take back fraudulently claimed money directly from the wage packets of the fraudsters are therefore also to be welcomed.
The vast majority of the public knows that it is time the benefits system went back to functioning as a safety net and not a feather bed.