Hammond's 'no unemployed' gaffe fuels belief that Tories don't care

The chancellor’s untimely slip carried echoes of Lamont’s remark that people out of work was a price worth payingPhilip Hammond’s gaffe that “there are no unemployed” is damaging despite his best efforts to explain it away because it feeds into two widely held beliefs: that the Tories don’t care about the unemployed and that the chancellor may be good at the figures but has no wider political vision.Hammond is already on a yellow card for lacking political nou