The Guardian view on universal credit: brake, don’t accelerate | Editorial

The government plans to speed up the rollout of its welfare reform. But what matters is the delay in paying people who desperately need itUniversal Credit, once trailed as the Conservatives’ flagship benefit reform, has staggered from crisis to crisis since its inception seven years ago. On Thursday a letter from a dozen Tory backbenchers to the work and pensions secretary, David Gauke, calling for a pause was leaked to the Daily Telegraph. Later, the former government adviser Dame Louise