COVID-19 and (mis)understanding public attitudes to social security: Re-setting debate.

The position is summarised by Deeming and Johnston (2018: 400), in an article entitled ‘Coming together in a rightward direction’, as being that since the mid-1990s there has been a strong trend in British attitudes away from a ‘pro-welfare’ stance towards a neo-liberal, ‘workfare not welfare’, position and “Society has converged on anti-welfare attitudes” (ibid: 412).

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