Tag: welfare state

• Thursday, April 25th 2024 - 05:47 UTC

  PM Sunak overhauls benefits system and tackle Britain's “sick note culture” in welfare reform

  

  In a major speech the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak unveiled a package of welfare reform measures to tackle the unprecedented rise in economic inactivity and ensure the benefits system is better targeted at those who need it most.

• Thursday, November 14th 2019 - 18:30 UTC

  As populism advances, beware of the Polish secret

  

  By Gwynne Dyer – There is a tension at the heart of populist political parties that may ultimately lead most of them to electoral defeat. They depend heavily on the votes of the old, the poor and the poorly educated — “I love the poorly educated,” as Donald Trump once put it — but they are also right-wing parties that do not like what they call “socialism.” (Other people call it the welfare state.)