Help Quote by Grant Shapps

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

— Grant Shapps

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

— Grant Shapps

Unfortunately, liberals didn't stop with welfare-statism. They also turned to economic regulations, not understanding that such interventions, again, harmed the very people they were…

— Jacob G. Hornberger

I think the Labour government did good and important things, and it's really important not to undervalue them. I see in my constituency how…

— Ed Miliband

A lot of people didn't feel attracted to Labour, so they voted in desperation for other things.

— Jeremy Corbyn

The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that…

— Jim Talent

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

— Emily Thornberry

“How the public felt about government aid to the poor seemed to depend on how the question was put. Both parties, and the media,…

— Howard Zinn

The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That…

— Charles Boustany

I did the Labour thing because I wanted my community to be better off. I'm pretty sure people are aware of the kind of…

— AJ Tracey

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

There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law - that was all the state provided. It was…

— Barbara Castle