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The Importance of Fiscal Discipline in Welfare Policy

The average opinion is that families ought to live within their means. I've covered the welfare system in this country for a really long time. But then they also ask, or is it sort of labor being convinced of the moral need for draconian welfare policies? So there's quite a few different things going on. There's going to be so a little between the government and the Labor Party at the next election,. This is really difficult, isn't it, for a Labour frontbenchers as well?

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