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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

Labour MPs to be given book about the ‘enormous suffering’ caused by Tory welfare reform

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Department for Work and Pensions.
If the fundraising target is exceeded, the campaign will buy and deliver copies to MPs in all political parties. Photograph: Alex Segre/Alamy

Every Labour MP will soon be given a book about the failures of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) after a crowdfunding campaign was launched to buy more than 400 copies to help the new government “understand the enormous suffering that the Tory ‘welfare reform’ agenda caused”.

The crowdfunder, titled “Tell Labour MPs the human cost of benefit cuts”, has met its initial £3,500 target. The campaign plans to deliver 412 copies of The Department: How a Violent Government Bureaucracy Killed Hundreds and Hid the Evidence by John Pring to parliament on 2 September, when MPs are due to return from summer recess.

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