Ministers ramp up anti-welfare rhetoric a day after data showed increase in UK unemployment
Jeremy Hunt said in his joint article with Mel Stride that people out of work owing to long-term sickness was a ‘challenge’.Jeremy Hunt said in his joint article with Mel Stride that people out of work owing to long-term sickness was a ‘challenge’.The UK chancellor and the welfare secretary have suggested that too many people are claiming unemployment benefit as a lifestyle choice after a rise in joblessness.
And they insisted the UK’s labour market was healthy, saying: “The headline figures published by the ONS yesterday will of course attract attention, but our economic record is strong and our labour market resilient. Indeed, the ONS itself has expressed some caution about the data being produced by its surveys over a number of months, so it is important not to be alarmist.”
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