The Prime Minister said: "Our welfare reforms are about giving new purpose, new opportunity, new hope and new responsibility to people who had previously been written off with no chance."
Benefits are being slashed to give those who depended on them "hope," David Cameron has declared.
The Prime Minister's extraordinary claim came as he sought to shrug off criticism of his brutal policies from the UK's leading Catholic churchman.
The Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, has warned that the coalition's changes have left many in "hunger and destitution".
And the Archbishop, who will be made a Cardinal by the Pope this weekend, has also attacked political leaders for fuelling fears of immigration.
Mr Cameron insisted that the Archbishop's criticism is "simply not true" in an article for the Daily Telegraph.
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The Prime Minister's extraordinary claim came as he sought to shrug off criticism of his brutal policies from the UK's leading Catholic churchman.
The Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, has warned that the coalition's changes have left many in "hunger and destitution".
And the Archbishop, who will be made a Cardinal by the Pope this weekend, has also attacked political leaders for fuelling fears of immigration.
Mr Cameron insisted that the Archbishop's criticism is "simply not true" in an article for the Daily Telegraph.
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