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DAVID CAMERON will hit a “legal brick wall” in his bid to deprive EU nationals of in-work benefits, TUC leader Frances O’Grady predicted yesterday.
Ms O’Grady said the Prime Minister’s plan to stop EU citizens accessing benefits until they have lived in Britain for four years would breach “discrimination, human rights and freedom of movement principles.”
She said: “What I think is worrying about this is the risk of discrimination on the basis of national origin and more generally a world view that suggests that treating one group of workers worse than another group is somehow going to help us in the big challenges that we face.”
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
The government’s retreat on PIP still leaves 150,000 new universal credit claimants facing halved benefits from April 2026, creating a discriminatory two-tier welfare system that campaigners must continue fighting, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY
