Drumlanrig: Welfare debate is hard to bear for McMahon
Having heard academics suggest that rising demand for food aid was linked to the coalition government’s welfare reforms, McMahon remarked: “I do not query your evidence at all, but it is like asking whether bears do certain things in their natural habitat.”
Happily, the expert witnesses were spared the blunter and more vulgar version of the phrase used by McMahon to suggest they were stating the obvious.
Cabinet kicked into touch by Irish team
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