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So, on that analogy comparing disability benefits to pocket money ... guess who said it first? Keith.

Full story in the Times: "A make-or-break week for Starmer as Trump set to announce tariffs"

https://archive.is/s0blX

#UKPolitics #DisabilityBenefits
The Times can disclose, however, tht the genesis of the analogy came from the very top.  It was first made byy Starmer at cabinet on Tuesday, during a discussion about official impact assessments showing that 250,000 people - including 50,000 children - face being pushed into poverty by the government's welfare cuts.
I suspect that his kids don't even have a paper round and will have internships in due course. Additional to your point about his infelicitous analogy.
Paper rounds don't even exist any more do they?
He was on C4 News last night throwing his dead relatives under the bus as a reason he "understood the concerns" of disabled people, without realising he was fundamentally undermining his own point by saying his own family couldn't have survived without benefits.