"People who come to my constituency office these days for help with some kind of error in their benefits often spend the first few minutes trying to justify their worth. They usually begin by trying to explain their history of working and that they have paid tax. They are desperate …..." Baroness Teather - View Speech
"I will return to that point in a moment, because I want to make another point about public attitudes first.
For those of us in this place who care about social justice, long-term changes in public attitudes to poverty should give us other causes of concern, because they will make …..." Baroness Teather - View Speech
"The fourth disingenuous point is probably that cutting the incomes of those at the bottom of the income threshold will help boost the economy. All the evidence says that money put into the pockets of those at the bottom of the income spectrum is most likely to be spent. That …..." Baroness Teather - View Speech