Benefits rebuild a huge job for Govt
FOR too long now Britain’s benefits bill has been unaffordable.
The annual cost of employment and disability benefits stands at a whopping £65billion.
For too long now Britain’s benefits bill has been unaffordable[/caption]
But even more damaging than the vast price tag has been the human cost.
More than nine million people of working age are unemployed and not seeking a job.
Under current rules, they often have little or no incentive to return to the workforce.
At a time of global uncertainty, the need to slash these costs is both morally right and economically vital.
Billions are needed to keep our nation safe.
The overhaul proposed by Labour is welcome.
For the first time, the benefits system will recognise that those who have worked deserve much greater support than other people who have lived their lives on hand-outs.
Both major parties have talked tough on benefits.
And the devil will, of course, be in the detail.
But Labour must make work pay.
The cost of failure is unthinkable.
Corridor care crisis
THE horrendous ordeal of Sarah Dodd should shame the NHS.
It is truly shocking that the mum of three endured eight days being treated in a hospital corridor.
This is the reality of healthcare in 21st Century Britain.
The former solicitor was treated on a makeshift bed at the Worcestershire Royal Hospital for more than a week after being admitted in excruciating pain.
Labour came to power promising to fix the NHS crisis.
It has staked its future on transforming our care.
Sarah’s experience shows the daunting scale of the task ahead.
Mask no questions
WHAT is the point of the monstrous Covid inquiry?
This moribund, lawyer-crammed probe is an obscene waste of £200million.
Ex-PM Boris Johnson vowed it would put the handling of the pandemic “under the microscope”.
So why is it failing to examine in more detail the provision of faulty PPE gear?
As we reveal, the inquiry will not be calling Richard and Sarah Stoute, whose firm Full Support Healthcare trousered £1.8billion of public money.
Yet £1.4billion of their PPE ended up in the bin.
If the inquiry can’t be bothered to ask them about that then it should be shut down. Pronto.
