Slashing the welfare budget versus “we are all in this together”: the cumulative effect of cuts is more serious than has yet been admitted

Collating the meagre information that the government has so far released on its multiple welfare cutbacks, Jane Tinkler argues that it will be the knockon effects that will hit low and middle income families the hardest. The cuts will perhaps fall especially hard on families and individuals where someone becomes recently unemployed, whose numbers will swell by at least million over the next four years.