Nice timing that Tim Allan has been brought in as Director of Comms a week before this blows up given he was deputy comms director for Blair when Mandelson was getting into trouble the first time around.
As it's in the news again - this is the post I wrote a few months ago on why the disability benefits bill has been going up.
Essentially, you can't remove need by removing support - it just pops up as a cost somewhere else.
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My brief contribution to the bluesky discourse is that across all written social media there's been a tail off in use in the last few months because Trump's first few weeks caused a huge surge.
OK now that I've read the white paper recommendations I'd say closing the care system to overseas recruitment is the single most substantive system change.
That can only plausibly work if salaries go up significantly.
