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'Axe will fall on middle class welfare'

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As unemployment continues to rise, can budget cuts realistically be made to the welfare policies in the age of austerity?

Richard Reeves, director of the left leaning think tank left Demos, and Neil O'Brien, director of the Conservative leaning think-tank Policy Exchange, examine the future of the welfare system.


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