Labour Changes Its Benefits Freeze Policy Four Times In Five Hours After Manifesto Launch

 
Labour’s benefit payments policy is in “chaos” this afternoon after the party struggled to agree if it would scrap the freeze on welfare.
Party leader Jeremy Corbyn gave seemingly conflicting answers today when asked if Labour would reverse the Tories’ benefit freeze, introduced last year.
A Labour spokesperson tried to clear up matters by saying the freeze would be axed, only for Shadow Foreign Secretary Emily Thornberry to say it woudn’t be “reversed