DWP advertising campaign for universal credit sparks fury as charities reveal claimants are ‘selling sex to survive’

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'Rather than wasting huge chunks of desperately needed resources on 10 weeks of advertorial, why won’t the government just take a look at the terrible reality of the facts?'

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