This week the DWP posted on Twitter that they’d successfully caught more benefit fraudsters in their crackdown. This time it was the minister in charge of the department, Mel Stride, and he took a newspaper known for its reasoned stance on benefit claimants along with him for the ride.
Stride told The Sun he had “the determination of Ted Hastings to clamp down on things that are wrong and to do the right thing”.
This is after the Minister for disabled people, Tom Pursglove, fronted a similar bizarre video last month. Looking like a man that you just know practised his Liam Neeson impressions in the shower, he announced in his little stab vest “We will track you down. We will find you. And we will bring you to justice.”
