Sentences with phrase «tough welfare policy»

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Labour's awkward compromise in this area makes it look like they can't decide, while Labour voters especially applaud the Tory approach to a get tough policy on welfare — they are often the people who see abuse of the system at first hand, and for them, fairness is about stamping on scroungers and shirkers.

In an analysis that will dismay senior Blairites in the party, the report suggests the Conservatives are too right - wing on crime, immigration and welfare — all areas where polling suggests the public would like to see even tougher policies.

Policy Exchange's Northern Lights research was a reminder that they have tough views on immigration, crime, welfare and the ECHR.

But there's an argument to be made that the apogee of conservative social policy was actually in the 1990s, with tough - on - crime laws, which broke the back of a crack - fueled murder wave; welfare reform, which reined in government dependency; and education reform, which curbed monopoly power of the teachers» unions in our big cities.