‘The language is different. The policy, though?’ - Labour’s approach to welfare leaves a lot to be desired, while the effects and consequences are still uncertain

Labour's approach to welfare reform is jarring and conflicting, somewhat concerning, and quite unclear.

Going into the difficult period of winter for many, it provides little in the way of certainty for those expecting any kind of immediate reprieve. Moreover, moving forward, there’s no sense of rush about it anyway.

For as long as this page can remember, successive chancellors and Department of Work and Pensions secretaries have pledged (see also: ‘threatened) the department and its ‘clients’/’customers’ with sweeping reforms designed to cut the ‘benefits bill’, and the policies have often been met with mixed success.

But then it depends entirely on how you measure ‘success’.

Some of the most damaging (or ‘most successful’ - euph.) reforms came under the previous Conservative administration.