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Those targeted by new Workfare scheme make up just 2% of benefits bill
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Boris is leaving housing crumbs for Londoners
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Action on Help to Buy is too little too late
The last thing we need is a housing bubble, this will only make London’s housing crisis worse not better.
The government’s free school programme just got sinister
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