'The Bill only targets the less well-off. There is no equivalent surveillance of legislators who accept payments to advance the interests of their corporate paymasters.'...
This isn’t going anywhere unless they get support form outside of that group. The group has 25 members. Braverman is a member of the ERG with 43 members. One of which (Jonathan Gullis) is a member of both. So that is a potential 77 votes if she garners full support....
This is a consequence of the culture wars the Tories pushed in the 90’s with the term benefits thieves. They used this to take as much money out of our support system as they could. Osborne doubled down on that idea....