The Telegraph opinion piece, on UK Politics, 10 November 2026
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Read the original article on telegraph.co.uk (opens in a new tab)Adam Smith argues in The Telegraph that young people's worklessness cannot be tackled without reducing benefits, and that employment schemes deliver small gains at high cost. He attributes his key outcome figures for Restart, Kickstart and the benefit cap to the DWP, and reports the DWP finding that cuts against his own case. No findings were raised against the column on the grounds an opinion piece is judged on.
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“But it also found that the cap increased claims for exempting benefits by roughly three households in every hundred.”
The author reports the DWP finding that weakens his own case for the benefit cap, so the reader sees that tightening one benefit partly shifts claims elsewhere.
“helping an extra 11 in every hundred into unsubsidised jobs according to a recent DWP study”
The figure is given with its base and its source, so the reader can judge the claim about Kickstart for themselves.
“The Prime Minister and the Chancellor have promised to reform welfare without making “crude cuts”.”
The column makes clear at the outset that the phrase in its headline is the government's own wording, which it then argues against.
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