DAILY MAIL COMMENT: After seven weeks in Downing Street, the PM’s mask FINALLY slips on welfare and defence spending
The Daily Mail's editorial criticises Prime Minister Andy Burnham for refusing to prioritise defence spending increases over cuts to the welfare budget, arguing his comments in the Commons revealed his true political leanings after seven weeks avoiding the question. The paper contends that Burnham is wrong to frame welfare reduction as inevitably causing hardship, instead…