John Major's intervention with universal credit

It is nice to hear Sir John Major’s criticism of his party’s handling of Universal Credit – but doesn’t it strike you as cynical that he is being heard saying it now?

It is as though the Conservative Party is staging a set-piece – here’s a grandee of the party, a former prime minister no less, calling on the current regime to be less “unforgiving” to the less-fortunate.

And we’re supposed to believe that Theresa May and David Gauke will listen.

The idea, one imagines, is that we’ll only notice they haven’t done anything a few months – and a few more thousand deaths – down the line.

http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2017/10/08/majors-intervention-on-universal-credit-is-welcome-but-the-only-time-tories-show-heart-is-when-theyre-threatened/