The government’s Disability Benefit Cuts Bill is impossible to support

The government’s Disability Benefit Cuts Bill is impossible to support

Chris Hinchcliff is the Labour MP for North East Hertfordshire Nearly 50 years ago, Labour Minister Douglas Houghton—the man responsible for social security after thirteen wasted years of Tory government and the last Cabinet member to have served in the carnage of the First World War—said shortly after taking office: “The economic inheritance from the Conservative Government is a grievous one, far worse than is thought, but the Government will n…