Instead of arriving at the position of either backing the government's welfare bill or forever being depicted as the friend of the scrounger, shadow ministers should have been making a big argument about the regressive nature of the Budget, the lamentable symbolism of effectively scrapping child poverty targets and the removal of in - work benefits to those eponymous hard - working families. (labour-uncut.co.uk)
But the former paratrooper is returning to the frontline of politics as he takes on the government over child poverty targets (totalpolitics.com)
As the Government's welfare bill is in the Commons today, Harriet Harman has published a reasoned amendment laying out the bits of the bill Labour agrees with (the benefits cap, turning student maintenance grants to loans) and the bits it does not agree with (abolishing child poverty targets). (totalpolitics.com)