Posted: Jun 20, 2011 7:14 am
The Tories love to take the moral high ground, especially when it fits in nicely with policy - in this case financial policy. The benefits system spends huge amounts on supporting lone parents (the vast majority of whom are women), and there is also strong evidence that children from lone parent families are likely to do less well at school, be more at risk of getting into offending behaviour and so on - all of which has financial as well as social costs. Cameron thinks he can't lose with this issue.