Labour members ‘have tougher view on welfare than you might think’, poll suggests

Labour's grassroots have spoken: health at forty-three percent, the economy at forty-two, and the cost of living at thirty-nine percent are Britain's most pressing concerns in party members' eyes. Climate change ranks fourth at twenty-nine percent. Welfare and immigration barely register—seven and six percent respectively. Per The Guardian, a survey of seven hundred eighty-eight Labour members reveals a base skeptical about increasing welfare spending while supportive of higher defence spending. It's the political landscape Andy Burnham now inherits.

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