The labour market has come to depend on a punitive credo in a benefits system that fails the people it is supposed to help, says Guardian columnist John Harris
As the government responds to the looming economic crisis, its approach seems to embody two polar opposites. The money it is spending to revive the economy is, we are told, not just unprecedented, but indicative of a huge change in Tory thinking, which shoves Conservatism away from the tenets of Thatcherism and everything that followed it.
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