David Ruffley - MP for Bury St Edmunds, Stowmarket and Needham Market

DWP Press

The Sun - Tories rap shake-up

5 July 2006

TONY Blair's shake-up of Britain's welfare system was branded a"dampsquib" by the Tories last night.

The overhaul -published yesterday -will fail to take ONE claimant off incapacity benefit.

The Government has set up instead a £ 300million Pathways To Work scheme to help those on sick benefit find work.

Tory spokesman David Ruffley warned that existing claimants would be "left out in the cold".