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Radio 4,1 min

Peter Lilley: it was the start of eliminating material poverty

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The Conservative MP for Hitchin & Harpenden, and former Social Security Secretary in the '90s, says the Welfare state has become more cumbersome than Beveridge would have tolerated

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