25 January 2006

Tony Blair supports welfare shake-up, warning that unemployed people, single parents and those on incapacity benefit that they could no longer expect “a lifetime” on benefit.

What: The prime minister warns unemployed people, single parents and those on incapacity benefit that they could no longer expect “a lifetime” on benefit.

Why significant: Shows evidence of the scrounger/malingerer rhetoric coming from the very top of the Labour government.