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7 December 2012

How Osborne’s benefits cuts will hit the disabled

Disability campaigners accuse Osborne of misleading the public over his welfare cuts.

By George Eaton

In his Autumn Statement, George Osborne sought to give the impression that he had protected the disabled from his benefits cuts. He told the Commons:

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