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Anna van Praagh

OPINION - Look at our spiralling benefits bill and tell me that we can go on like this

Talk to anyone in London these days and people all seem to agree that it has become almost impossible to translate hard work into any kind of financial progress.

This echoes a major poll in the Standard today which found that nine out of 10 voters think their personal finances are getting worse or no better, in a pre-election blow to the Conservatives.

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