Britain Quote by David Miliband

Across Europe, not just in the U.K., the old Beveridge and Bismarckian variants of the welfare state have been dismantled. In their place has…

— Guy Standing

Welfare's just one of the problems Labour failed to tackle when they were in government.

— Grant Shapps

There's unrecognizable change happening in Britain. The life prospects and job prospects, particularly of working-class people, have been severely dented. Without anyone being asked.

— Nigel Farage

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work…

— Patricia Hewitt

Successive governments in the U.K. have worked to create a more flexible labour market, which also meant labour insecurity. They allowed wages to drop…

— Guy Standing

The fact of the matter is that when governments fail - as the Tories have done - to tackle the root causes of working…

— Emily Thornberry

Labour have long since forgotten that people work hard to pay their taxes and support our welfare system.

— Grant Shapps

If you can work, you should work and with Labour our welfare system will make sure that happens.

— Rachel Reeves

Uncontrolled, mass immigration displaces British workers, forces people onto benefits, and suppresses wages for the low-paid.

— Theresa May

I do not believe the picture that some people paint of Scottish towns dependent on welfare. Every time I come here, I meet people…

— Iain Duncan Smith

“In an advanced industrial society it becomes almost impossible to seek, even to imagine, unemployment as a condition for autonomous, useful work. The infrastructure…

— Ivan Illich

Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need…

— Iain Duncan Smith