
The Left thinks the welfare state should ‘wipe away every tear’. It won’t happen — and it shouldn’t.
By Robin Aitken
In his introduction to Labour’s election manifesto, Jeremy Corbyn pledged to end something he called “food bank Britain”, and when I read that my immediate thought was: “I hope he never does.” This is not because I take any delight in the idea that thousands of my fellow citizens regularly go to local food banks to get food to feed themselves and their families, but rather beca...
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