Conservatives: David Cameron monthly press conference

Conservatives: David Cameron monthly press conference; The second big choice is on society. Labour just don't want to know. They can't believe that so many pieties, so many public spending programmes, have not only failed to elevate our society but eroded the bonds that held it together. So they pretend everything is fine. We don't - our society is broken, and we have a plan to fix it. WELFARE A key part of our plan to build a more responsible society is for radical welfare reform. So, naturally I welcome the Government's overdue decision to take up many of our proposals and I will help the Government get its Bill through the Commons. But, there is a rotten apple in this barrel. The Government wants to force single mothers of pre-school children to start the process of getting back into work. That includes mothers with children possibly as young as one year old. Many parents choose to go back to work, and we should support them in that but the state prodding and pushing them into work like this - that is wrong. I don't know if James Purnell is trying a little too hard to look tough or if he genuinely thinks it's okay to force mothers of very young children to go to work. Either way, this is a shameful proposal. It's vital that in this recession we - at the very least - don't do anything that makes our broken society worse. We need to help families, not make life harder for them and that especially applies to single parent families who already have it hard enough. It won't do much good for our economy, and it certainly won't do much for our society. So I will work with all those in the House of Commons who want to stop this part of the proposals in its tracks."