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Sneering Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan-Smith angered Labour MPs in the Commons yesterday by accusing them of "carping" about the government's huge welfare cuts.
Mr Duncan-Smith was bombarded with protests about the cruel bedroom tax and the failing work programme, but he simply told Labour members to get "back into reality."
He brazenly boasted that the government was slashing the welfare bill by over £80 billion.
As a proportion of GDP the total welfare bill is lower than it was 15 years ago. The claim that it is spiralling out of control is mythmaking, argues DIANE ABBOTT
Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE