The prime minister has a once-in-a-generation chance to reintroduce compassion to welfare. He has to seize the moment Back in 2009, months before the coalition government unleashed sweeping austerity, the then Conservative backbencher Iain Duncan Smith produced a study that would go on to lay th...

Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/16/right-scrounger-rhetoric-benefits-labour-compassion-welfare)

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