Burnham backs ‘conditional’ welfare support in first PM interview

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In Andy Burnham’s first interview as PM, the newly-minted Labour leader spoke about the need to “get really serious as a country” about “getting the welfare bill down”. And how exactly does he plan to accomplish this feat? Well, Burnham claimed that he didn’t want to “blame” people on benefits, before adding: It’s about changing the nature of the support, and making some of the support conditional upon people taking opportunities that are presented. Implying that people on benefits having been taking the “opportunities that are presented” sounds an awful lot like blame, to us. Blame by another name The BBC recorded its…

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