There is a fund to create jobs in the poorest areas, and Labour has quietly gutted it. This is what betrayal looks like | Larry Elliott
The Welsh valleys have some of the highest numbers of people claiming incapacity benefits in the whole of Britain. In Abertillery, Maesteg and Merthyr Tydfil, getting on for a quarter of the working-age population is not employed – in large part due to long-term ill-health. If the government was serious about reducing the growing welfare…
