Labour pledges to 'pause' universal credit if elected in 2015 - BBC

Labour will "pause" the government's flagship welfare reform if it wins the next general election in 2015, shadow work and pensions secretary Rachel Reeves has said.

Ms Reeves said her party supported the universal credit policy in principle, and hoped to "rescue" it.
She said the Department for Work and Pensions had been in "chaos" under her opposite number, Iain Duncan Smith.

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