Poll shows 58% think new benefits cap is unfair

Surely Cameron can commission another poll giving a different answer...

SOURCE GUARDIAN: ICM asked voters to choose between two views of the chancellor's headline proposal for a 1% cap on benefit rises. Just 36% agreed with the coalition's argument that "squeezing benefits is fair, seeing as wages for workers are also being squeezed", whereas 58% inclined to the case made by the opposition that squeezing benefits and tax credits "is unfair, seeing as it will hurt the vulnerable, including many who people who do work hard for low pay".



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