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Welfare cuts vote could be the government's biggest parliamentary test to date

Welfare cuts vote could be the government's biggest parliamentary test to date

Liz Kendall, the welfare secretary, said today that the welfare system was at a crossroads - and that the road she had chosen was the one of "compassion, opportunity and dignity".

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