Regional benefits would make no sense at all

COMPASSIONATE Conservatism?

Forget it. Yesterday David Cameron seriously suggested restricting benefits for workless families with several children, scrapping housing benefit for under-25s and making the long-term unemployed do full-time community work or lose all payments. And, though the idea was removed from the final draft of his speech, introducing regional variations in the level of benefits "makes sense", according to Number 10.

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