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Your Nan’s Cold Because a Nurse Got Universal Credit. Apparently.

Your Nan’s Cold Because a Nurse Got Universal Credit. Apparently.

The Telegraph wants you to believe benefits and migration are in a zero-sum cage match. They’re not - and they never were.

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What would a Saturday morning be without a breathless headline from The Telegraph?

It's the kind of headline designed not to inform but to provoke - high on volume, low on rigour, and carefully calibrated to fit neatly into a week of manufactured outrage.

Let's do a rapid dissection of some of the most glaring issues, starting with the number.

£1bn a month…

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