I thought this exchange, reported in Hansard, was telling: Mr Meacher: To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions how many benefit claimants have
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The above question is often asked on this web site. William Davies, who is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, has
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It is, of course, an act of vanity to suggest a budget you know you will never deliver, not least because you have no intention
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The budget is usually the centrepiece of any government's policy making. It is also an opportunity milked for all its possible publicity worth. And a
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