Britain’s Welfare State

Six million Britons are living in households where nobody works - costing the taxpayer almost £13 billion a year in benefits alone, a spending watchdog report reveals today.

An astonishing one in six households across the country are officially classified as ‘workless’ - having adults of working age but none with a job - and almost 1.8 million children are now growing up in these homes.

- This is the result of their liberal policies for the past 30 years -