He then spaffs on about Atlee creating the welfare state, Wilson expanding pensions, and Blair and Brown reforming the welfare state. He goes on to brush over what the Tories did and says they left Labour with a “welfare state that was broken, battered and shamed”. Of course, he’s not talking about the tens of thousands of disabled people who were killed by DWP policies, though. Grossly, he announces that this “new” DWP will be:not a dependency welfare state, but the opportunity welfare state. Renew the bond between work and the welfare state, make work the pathway to dignity, security and pride, and in doing that conference together, let us build that opportunity welfare state.