Cameron: Our welfare reforms are ‘compassionate’

‘Welfare reforms are “compassionate” and the government should “not be concerned” with growing criticism from senior religious figures on the moral legitimacy of its policies, David Cameron has said.

His comments come amid a growing row between senior bishops and the Prime Minister over recent changes to welfare and immigration laws.

Last Sunday the Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols attacked new immigration targets as “inhumane” and warned that families were being split up due to the scandal” of tougher rules on spouses from outside the EU coming to Britain.’

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