Kevin Schofield is HuffPost UK's political editor and is based at Westminster. He has been a political journalist for more than 20 years, and in that time has worked for the Press Association, The Scotsman, The Herald, Daily Record, The Sun and PoliticsHome.
, who accused him of having “a real brass neck” after the last Tory government left the economy in a mess.Philp replied: “I do a bit. There are nine million working age adults who are not working, and as we compete globally with countries like South Korea, China, India.
“We need a work ethic, we need everybody to be making a contribution. We are in a global race and that means we’ve got to be competitive and it means we’ve got to work hard. And I think as a country we need to lift our game, we need to up our game.
“The British public will no doubt take his advice with a bucketload of salt. The Conservatives could do with showing a bit more humility after trashing the economy and leaving the NHS on its knees.”
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