ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
Tories challenged over poisonous debate on welfare

SCOTTISH Tory welfare spokeswoman Michelle Ballantyne was widely condemned this week after she said it was “fair” that benefit recipients could not have “as many children as they like.”
The pressure mounting on Scottish Tory chiefs to remove her from their front bench is a sign of how far we’ve come. It wasn’t too long ago that figures from across the political spectrum were regularly indulging in this kind of rhetoric. It was a true race to the bottom.
Standing for the Labour deputy leadership in 2015, Caroline Flint gave an exclusive interview to the Sun in which she said it was time to give people who “choose to live on benefits” (the Sun’s paraphrase) a “kick up the backside” (Flint’s own words).
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