Benefit Reform

Something Labour continually promised, but ended up increasing complex benefits and tax credits. Tax credits became difficult to manage, too complex to understand, and were a classic Brown piece of micro managing.

So how refreshing to hear that all these things could be merged into a single benefit that would still be claimable as people take jobs to avoid the trap of being worse off once you return to work - itself creating a dependency culture in the UK.

Also good to see Labour MP Frank Field generally supporting, his previous similar ideas were never taken up by the Labour. Let's hope it works!