Burnham told friends that the welfare bill debacle was like "a slow-motion car crash" and privately put the blame at the door of Harriet Harman who, he believed, had been responsible for the decision to abstain on the bill, with Yvette Cooper.
Mr Blair's government lacks the political will, as its debacle over welfare reform—"their greatest failure so far"—made plain.
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has rejected claims his flagship welfare policy is a "debacle".
But Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith has rejected claims that his flagship welfare policy is a "debacle".
Smith covers all the familiar territory — the health care debacle, the Middle East, Northern Ireland, welfare reform, the budget surplus, Monica Lewinsky, impeachment — and manages to come up with some fascinating tidbits.
Here's a summary Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, has denied his flagship welfare reform programme is a "debacle" despite admitting that more than £40m spent on IT for the project had been written off.
This statistic has a lot to do with CP's largely welfare dependent indigenous population and the debacle of a situation (we could do a whole issue and only scratch the surface) that exists as a result.
In the first two years, Reed worked in the shadow of the health-care debacle and warred with his more liberal peers on the Administration's welfare-reform task force.
