Newspaper review: Welfare reforms pored over

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The government's newly announced plans to reform welfare to "make work pay" are pored over in most of the papers.

The Daily Express said it welcomed the sanctions against those who turned down jobs,, external the benefits cap and tax breaks.

But the Guardian thinks the "new poor law", external should step back from the blueprint for a universal credit.

"Well un-fare" is the Daily Mirror's verdict,, external as it accuses the Tories of hitting 1.7 million people with "the harshest welfare shake-up in 60 years".

'Non-job war'

David Cameron and Nick Clegg go head-to-head with opposing articles in the Daily Mail on voting reform. , external

The PM likens democracy under the Alternative Vote (AV) system to winning an Olympics race and getting a bronze medal, while second place gets gold.

But Mr Clegg says under the current system most people are represented by someone most people did not vote for.

The Daily Telegraph, meanwhile, says there is to be a war on council "non-jobs", external which "exploded" under Labour.

'Madeleine lead'

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