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Welfare attacks continue: 8 in the morning – October 27th

8am

By Mark Ferguson / @markfergusonuk

* Is welfare the new political divide?

* Three-quarters of incapacity benefit claimants are fit to work claims DWP.

* Alan Johnson needs to get angry, argues Matthew Norman.

* “Easy council” spends more than it saves in efficiency drive…

* London will be “as segregated as Paris” after cuts.

* A secret deal with the Swiss government could allow Brits to escape £40 billion in taxes.

* Osborne needs a plan B, says Simon Jenkins.

* And Gorbachev says that Putin is a block to Russian democracy.

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