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The Labour Party's Callousness on Universal Credit

I think that's what a lot of the backlash has been about, not so much the policy itself, but the off-hand way he went now. An answer that says, we don't agree with it, but good luck getting that one passed Laura K, Rachel. She would have cut you off after the first two seconds. Yeah, I think it sort of wounds the soul of the Labour Party in a way. But the alternative to that is if the Labour Party says, we're about to look at this, that may appear on the front page of the eye as a spending commitment in another kind of world.

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