Forget Derek Conway (and I'm trying my best), this is the most important news of the week.
According to David Freud, a key Government adviser, two thirds of people claiming incapacity benefit are not entitled to it.
In his interview with the Telegraph (another coup for Alice Thompson and Rachel Sylvester) he offers a stark assessment of the current situation:
The system we have at the moment sends 2.64 million people into a form of economic house arrest and encourages them to stay at home and watch daytime TV. We're doing nothing for these people.
David Freud was initially commissioned by the Department of Work and Pensions when the Blairite John Hutton was in charge. When Gordon Brown became Prime Minister and replaced Hutton with someone called Peter Hain, it was rumoured that the Freud Report had been kicked into the long grass. From the warm words that Freud now has for new DWP supremo James Purnell, it looks like the Blairite approach may be back in favour.
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