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PM sets out Tory plan to slash benefi tsProposals would cut welfare for big families, lone parents and under-s Patrick Wintour Political editor

David Cameron will today launch a scath-ing attack on what he calls the “culture of entitlement” in the welfare system, as he warns that claimants with three or more children may start to lose access to ben-efi ts, and almost everyone aged under 25 will lose housing benefi t.

The prime minister will claim there is now a damaging and divisive gap in Britain between those enjoying privileges inside the welfare system and those resentfully struggling outside. It is likely to be seen on the left as the death knell for Cameron’s brand of compassionate conservatism.

He will also single out lone parents of multiple children as a focus for cuts and insist the welfare system should be a safety net available only to those with no inde-pendent means of support. The reforms could see a range of benefits targeted, including income support payments.

The speech represents a shift in the prime minister’s political management of the coalition because he will openly acknowledge that some of the proposals cannot be delivered in concert with the Liberal Democrats, and will have to wait for a Conservative majority government after 2015.

He says he hopes the Lib Dem s will co-operate on some of the proposals, but “given the scale of change I’ve suggested, and the long time-frames involved, I am exploring these issues not just as leader of a coalition but as a leader of the Conserva-tive party who is looking ahead to the pro-gramme we will set out to the country at the next election”.

The Lib Dem Treasury chief secretary, Danny Alexander, gently rebuffed this, saying the focus should be on introducing universal credit in this parliament.

In the single most controversial pas-sage of the speech, Cameron will assert: “We have been encouraging working-age people to have children and not work, when we should be enabling working-age people to work and have children. So

it’s time we asked some serious questions about the signals we send out through the benefi ts system.”

He will say: “If you are a single parent living outside London, if you have four children and you’re renting a house on housing benefi t, then you can claim almost £25,000 a year. That is more than the aver-age take-home pay of a farm worker and nursery nurse put together. That is a fun-damental diff erence. And it’s not a mar-ginal point. There are more than 150,000 people who have been claiming income support for over a year who have three or more children … and 57,000 who have four or more children. The bigger picture is that today, one in six children in Britain is living in a workless household – one of the highest rates in Europe.”

Cameron will admit this is diffi cult ter-ritory, but will say that at a time of auster-ity, “It is right to ask whether those in the welfare system should not be faced with the same kinds of decisions that working people have to wrestle with when they have a child.”

Calling for a national debate on wel-fare, he will insist that compassion should not be measured by the size of a welfare cheque. He will also turn his fi re on young people aged under 24 on housing benefi t. He will say: “For literally millions, the passage to independence is several years living in their childhood bedroom as they save up to move out; while for many others, it’s a trip to the council where they can get housing benefi t at 18 or 19 – even if they’re not actively seeking work.”

Cameron is targeting the current 210,000 people aged 16 to 24 who are social housing tenants, although it is not clear if all of them will be single. He says the measure could save £1bn, but will not apply to victims of domestic violence.

The government has already capped housing benefit for anyone aged under 35 renting from a private landlord, so the maximum is the same as renting a single room in a shared house. The government is forecasting that housing benefi t expendi-

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Down and outEngland pay the penalty yet again

Barney Ronay Kiev

Stop all the clocks. Make alternative plans for next weekend. Remove the smudged Cross of St George fl ag from your passenger window. England are out of Euro 2012 after a defeat on penalties to Italy on a night of grand footballing drama in Kiev that was fi rst explosive, then thumb-gnawingly attritional, and fi nally, for England, rather desolate.

If there is consolation for Roy Hodg-son’s team, it is that they have exceeded expectations . They played their part in an absorbing quarter-fi nal capped by the operatic agony of a shoot out, but serenaded right to the death by a won-derfully unrelenting band of supporters camped at one end of the stadium.

The end, when it came, was swift: with the match scoreless after 120 min-utes, Riccardo Montolivo missed an early penalty for Italy, only for Ashley Young to then miss for England, before Ashley Cole’s weak kick was saved. That left Alessandro Diamanti to win it for Italy – which he did nervelessly.

And so football may not be coming home, but England’s footballers are, after one last trip back to Krakow to say farewell to a city that has proved a happy choice as team base. There will be many regrets at what might have been after the resilient, disciplined and very occasionally exuberant victories against Sweden and Ukraine. But then, this has turned out to be an unexpectedly heartening tournament for England fans generally, fortifi ed in advance by the widespread rock-bottom expectations of a team stitched together in record time and depleted of key players by the usual roster of twangs and sprains and twists.

On their fi nal outing at Euro 2012, England persever ed for the full 120 minutes, a team of tyros and old hands pushed the limits of their energies but still retaining the tactical disciplines Hodgson has conjured, even as they faded against superior opposition.

As the hours ticked away towards kick off , this had felt like the moment Kiev, the venue for the fi nal, really got the idea of staging a football tourna-ment. In brilliant sunshine, its central boulevards were thronged with local oddities: pigeon-fanciers, Ukrainian body-poppers and a miniskirted cowgirl folk-drumming troupe, while in the heart of the fan zone a slice of England had erected itself.

By late afternoon, a thousand shirtless Englishmen – some in cardboard Prince Philip masks – were bouncing around on a stage at the now-

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Wikipedia chief tells UK to block student’s US extradition James Ball

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has made a rare political intervention to call on Theresa May to stop the extradition of British student Richard O’Dwyer to the US for alleged copyright off ences.

Launching an online campaign , Wales said O’Dwyer, 24, was the “human face” of a global battle o ver the interests of the fi lm and TV industries and the wider public , which came to a head in the global outcry against the proposed US legislation, S opa and P ipa, cracking down on copyright infringement.

O’Dwyer, a multimedia student at Shef-fi eld Hallam University, faces up to 10 years in a US prison for founding TV Shack.net,

a crowdsourced site linking to places to watch full TV shows and movies online.

“When I met Richard, he struck me as a clean-cut, geeky kid. Still a university stu-dent, he is precisely the kind of person we can imagine launching the next big thing on the internet,” Wales wrote in a com-ment article for the Guardian today .

“Given the thin case against him, it is an outrage that he is being extradited to the US to face felony charges for something that he is not being prosecuted for here. No US citizen has ever been brought to the UK for alleged criminal activity that took place on US soil.

“From the beginning of the internet, we have seen a struggle between the interests of the ‘content industry ’ and the interests of the general public. Due to heavy lob-bying and much money lavished on poli-ticians, until very recently the content industry has won every battle.

“We, the users of the internet, handed them their fi rst major defeat earlier this year with the epic S opa/P ipa protests which culminated in a widespread internet blackout and 10 million people contacting

the US Congress to voice their opposition. Together we can win this one too.”

Wales was at the forefront of the cam-paign against the S opa and P ipa bills aimed at enforcing online copyright more vigor-ously, which many warned would threaten sites at the core of the internet: Google, Wikipedia and others. With other senior editors, Wales set aside for the fi rst time Wikipedia’s vaunted principle of neutral-ity , blacking out the online encyclopedia for a day as a warning of the consequences of too-strict copyright enforcement.

Yesterday, he launched a petition on change.org, an international campaigning website which garnered 2.2m

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