So much for one nation Conservatism

Labour’s Ruth Lister condemns the government’s plan to drop its pledge to end the four-year benefit freeze, while Linda Rhead writes that the DWP is a world apart from the country’s poorest. Tucked away in a report on inflation in your financial pages (17 October) was confirmation of growing fears that the government are considering reneging on earlier ministerial assurances that the four-year freeze of most working-age benefits would not be renewed next year. Until the change