Labour’s cut to disability benefits is not the mark of a government making “tough decisions”, but desperate ones, writes Will Cooling

One cannot go far at the moment without finding Labour ministers and their outriders bragging about their willingness to take tough decisions. Whether it be desperate foreigners, cold pensioners or quango bureaucrats, the message is being clearly communicated that no one is safe from a government committed to confronting this country’s problems head on.

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of this push has been its mooted cuts to disability benefits, with the government looking to secure as much as £7bn through a combination of freezing the benefits and changing the eligibility criteria. We are, however, told that this is not about saving money, but about saving people from being left to live on benefits for the rest of their life. That the government is planning to reinvest only a seventh of these savings back into measures to support disabled people in the workplace, and is indeed focusing its attack on the Personal Independent Payments that are paid to........

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