Getting Britain to work without blaming ‘scroungers’ – can Starmer change the narrative?
- Written by James Morrison, Associate Professor in Journalism Studies, University of Stirling
At face value, the government’s approach to “get Britain working” marks a pointed departure from the toxic anti-welfare rhetoric of recent decades.
Both Keir Starmer and his work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, have been at pains to distance themselves from on-off moral panics about “scroungers” that stretch back t...
