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Revealed: Britain spent £1.1 trillion more on benefits than investment in transport, homes and technology

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Revealed: Britain spent £1.1 trillion more on benefits than investment in transport, homes and technology

The Centre for Social Justice said welfare had acted as an ‘anaesthetic that has kept areas of the country numbed during two decades of economic failure’

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