We cannot keep footing the bill for jobless Britain – so I will bring forward a plan to cut sickness benefits in weeks
We cannot keep footing the bill for jobless Britain – so I will bring forward a plan to cut sickness benefits in weeks
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KICK starting Britain’s economy is the number one mission of this Labour Government. When the British people voted for change last year, they did so because for too long the economy had not worked for them. The cost of living crisis continued to bite. And businesses were being held back by unnecessary regulation and red tape.
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I am determined to turn that situation around. That’s why next week I will announce my next steps to turbocharge our economy. That means taking the right decisions in the national interest. Where the previous Conservative government dithered and delayed over the difficult choices, I won’t. I will not hesitate to make the right decisions in the best interest of working people.
Nothing demonstrates this difference in approach more than how we tackle the country’s spiralling benefits bill. Next week, I will expose how the Conservatives lost complete control of the benefits bill – with a project overspend of more than £8 billion and no action taken to address that.
£8.6 billion is triple the amount we spend on Britain’s asylum, border, visa and passport agencies. It would be enough to freeze fuel duty for another two years. Or it could pay for a 1p cut to income tax, with enough left over to fill nearly nine million potholes across the country.
But just like with so many other problems when it comes to the public finances, the Conservatives turned a blind eye, called an election, ran away and left us to pick up the pieces. Sun on Sunday readers will agree, as a country we cannot keep footing the bill for the spiralling numbers of people out of work.
