The universal credit cut is outrageous, but this callousness is nothing new | Frances Ryan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : No minister could dismantle social security without the backing, and outright cheerleading, of the rightwing press.
48% : Early research shows as yet the coronavirus crisis has not created the hoped-for softening of attitudes towards social security: half of the public think coronavirus claimants are more likely to be "deserving" than pre-pandemic claimants.

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