‘Fixing the Foundations’ is the phrase the Labour government wants in your head after the Budget. But the thin gruel for dealing with the challenge presented by our ill-health and disability benefits system suggests those words don’t count for much.
Apart from the defence of the realm, there is nothing more foundational to society than the way it treats its most vulnerable and most disadvantaged.
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