'Being Alive Is Beyond My Budget': Call To Cut Young People's Benefits Causes Serious Alarm

HuffPost UK reports Alan Milburn's call to move under-25s off the main sickness and disability benefits, quoting the government, Labour MPs, a Toynbee Hall survey of disabled people and a parent-carer. Its opening line says in its own voice that the calls were criticised as "far too extreme", though no one quoted in the article uses those words.

1. Uses a loaded word

   Minor

   “criticised for being far too extreme”

   Why this matters

   In its own voice HuffPost UK says the calls have been criticised for being "far too extreme", a verdict no named critic in the article gives.

   The impression it gives

   A reader takes it that critics have called the proposals extreme.

   The context

   The criticism quoted in the article is more measured. Toynbee Hall raised the alarm and warned of effects on engagement with work and education. A Labour MP said she was unsure she could vote for cuts. Nobody quoted uses the word extreme.

   How we know

   • Elsewhere in the article“has raised the alarm over these suggestions”
   • Elsewhere in the article“I’m not sure I could vote for cuts, unless it’s very clear what we’re voting for.”