DWP Accused of 'Black Propaganda' In Universal Credit Debate

Glenda Jackson has attacked the DWP for embarking on a programme of "black propaganda" in a deliberate attempt to undermine the UK's benefits system. During a universal credit debate in the House of Commons, the Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn accused Iain Duncan Smith's department of a "bunker mentality" adding that "simple humility is not part and parcel of its make-up". Jackson was responding to the news that civil service chief Sir Bob Kerslake had informed the Public Accounts Committee that the business case for universal credit had still not been signed off by the Treasury, despite an assurance from DWP minister Esther McVey that it had. Read more on 24dash.