The fall of the Tory party

Hunt says he's proud to live in a country where "there is a ladder everyone can climb, but also a safety net below which no one falls".

But he says that the safety net depends on tax and people must work.

So, not actually a safety net then.

And regardless of the merits of singling out those less deserving, which I know is a favoured pastime, I'm pretty sure everything I've read points to means testing basic benefits as being more expensive than just blanket granting them