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HARDtalk: Frank Field MP, Chairman of the Independent Review on Poverty

Frank Field MP, Chairman of the Independent Review on Poverty

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Amid the deepest spending cuts in a generation, is welfare about to be re-engineered?

Stephen Sackur interviews Frank Field, the Labour MP who has agreed to head the new government's poverty strategy review. Is the welfare state about to be re-engineered?

When it comes to cutting Britain's budget deficit David Cameron's coalition government has opted for the machete rather than the scalpel. The public is braced for the deepest cuts in public spending in a generation. Mr Cameron says he can roll back the size of the state in a progressive and fair way, but can he? Frank Field is a Labour MP who has agreed to head the new government's poverty strategy review. Is the welfare state about to be re-engineered?

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