Welfare benefits aren't "the biggest scandal in politics"

How the right-wing press misrepresents facts and misuses statistics to promote a political agenda

“The biggest social justice problem for the Tories is, of course, welfare,” proclaims the Spectator’s Fraser Nelson in the Telegraph (paywall).

Wow, I thought. Is he going to propose that the Tories steal Labour’s thunder by lifting the two-child limit?

No such luck. He’s not interested in improving welfare, he wants to cut it. And he thinks this will w…