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'Revolutionary' plans for welfare (BBC, 7/20/08)

Welfare reforms due to be unveiled - including abolition of the incapacity benefit system - will "transform lives", says minister James Purnell.

The work and pensions secretary said they would offer more help to return to work, but responsibility was "vital".

There are also plans to force long-term unemployed people to work for benefits, according to a draft leaked on Friday.

Tory leader David Cameron said it was "great" the government had taken up ideas recently proposed by his party.

He promised the government the support of Conservative MPs to get the measures in the Welfare Green Paper through Parliament if they faced a rebellion by Labour backbenchers.

We've a strong psychological desire to see ourselves as unique, but the similarity of politics across the Anglosphere puts paid to the notion.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 20, 2008 9:34 AM