When speeches by cabinet ministers are trailed as “major”, and the policies they announce as “new”, it’s always worth looking a little closer.
Much as the Work & Pensions Secretary Amber Rudd’s Universal Credit “reset” – outlined in January in a “landmark speech”, of course – was a PR exercise with very little actual policy change, today’s announcements by the Home Secretary Sajid Javid also stop short of a radical new approach.
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