On 30 th  October 2025, the Labour government released its response to the consultation on the Pathways to Work Green Paper 2025. The government received nearly 15,000 direct responses (i.e. responses that directly answered the questions posed by the government in the consultation) and over 33,000 indirect responses. The large majority of these indirect responses came from “a single campaigning platform, which put 2 surveys asking its own questions to its members.” Individual

One of the government’s most common tropes when it is discussing welfare is a desire to focus support on ‘the most needy’. Superficially...