A radical reform to the benefits system promoted by Labour leaders would bring sweeping tax rises while only worsening poverty, an authoritative international report has warned.
The findings are a blow to the dream of Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell that a ‘basic income’ system would leave no family at risk of penury and hunger.
Both the Labour leader and Shadow Chancellor have raised the idea of a universal basic income, which would see most means-tested state benefits abolished and replaced with a taxpayer-funded handout paid to everyone. A radical reform to the benefits system promoted by Labour leaders would bring […]
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